On: Surfing the Modern Web with Ancient Browsers

[bbanyc]

Worth noting: sufficiently ancient browsers (e.g. Netscape 1.x and most versions of Mosaic) can't even connect to modern websites, as they predate HTTP/1.1 and the "Host:" header.

See http://www.jwz.org/hacks/http10proxy.pl for a workaround.

(Unfortunately SSL was developed in an HTTP/1.0 world and it's taken nearly 20 years for us to get the equivalent functionality with SNI.)