[freerk]

SNI is not supported by the schannel implementation of win XP, it is not an IE6 thing, IE8 on win XP doesn't know SNI either :(

[tedunangst]

It's also not supported by python urllib or feedparser (at least not by default), meaning any attempt to connect to a service that requires SNI (cloudfront is one) fails during handshake.

This is doubly annoying for checking blogs that require https and redirect http. I have no way to check their RSS feeds.

[Animats]

Read this Python bug report for the painful story of SNI support in Python, 2009 through 2014.

http://bugs.python.org/issue5639

[tedunangst]

Sigh.

[bad_user]

Firefox and Chrome on the other hand don't have a problem on Windows XP.

[sporkmonger]

Also the non-Chrome version of Android Gingerbread's browser lacks SNI support.

[Animats]

Right; you have to get to at least Windows Vista to get SNI.

[dspillett]

You have to have at least Vista to get SNI in IE. IIRC both Firefox and Chrome support SNI on XP.