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by kelnos 4145 days ago
You're mistaken; certs with multiple SANs don't make use of SNI. SNI is used (required) when you have multiple distinct certs. CloudFlare is not using SNI likely specifically because of the IE+XP issues (among others) that you point out.
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Yeah, I got the two mixed up. SNI doesn't mean multiple hostnames on a cert. It means multiple certs on the same IP.

However, due to high costs behind getting IP addresses, CloudFlare does use SNI for its free tier. Its paid customers on the other hand get their own IP per hostname.