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It's not the host header, it's the SNI name. This is basically the same as domain fronting, just using another protocol within TLS.


Indeed, I was unclear. But the features are tied at the hip. SNI exists because TLS needs a way to discriminate separate certificates for the benefit of requests on the same port using distinct HTTP/1.1 Host headers. In my experience it's absolutely routine to talk about them using the same terminology.




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