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Plesk UI -> "Add SSL Certificate"
What:
It is possible to provide "alternative" names in certificates and their CSRs (additional to the main FQDN which is read from the "Domain name" in the plesk UI).
It's NOT supported by all CA/any cheap certificate.
It's well described here:
http://apetec.com/support/GenerateSAN-CSR.htm
I would like the UI being improved to allow entering subect alternative values which then will be included in the CSR or selfsigned certificate.
Benefits:
(a) This could be useful for professional users with expansive wildcard certificates (*.company.com). It's common to integrate the rootdomain (company.com) as an alternative name in such. Otherwise using a *.company.com certificate on company.com usually gives issues.
(b) This can improve the quality of self-signed certificates. Of course they will still warn the users about being self-signed, but the additional warning about being not correct for the destination they entered (e.g. they opened company.com instead of www.company.com) would disappear.
PS: cPanel seems to support it ;-)
Plesk UI -> "Add SSL Certificate"
What:
It is possible to provide "alternative" names in certificates and their CSRs (additional to the main FQDN which is read from the "Domain name" in the plesk UI).
It's NOT supported by all CA/any cheap certificate.
It's well described here:
http://apetec.com/support/GenerateSAN-CSR.htm
I would like the UI being improved to allow entering subect alternative values which then will be included in the CSR or selfsigned certificate.
Benefits:
(a) This could be useful for professional users with expansive wildcard certificates (*.company.com). It's common to integrate the rootdomain (company.com) as an alternative name in such. Otherwise using a *.company.com certificate on company.com usually gives issues.
(b) This can improve the quality of self-signed certificates. Of course they will still warn the users about being self-signed, but the additional warning about being not correct for the destination they entered (e.g. they opened company.com instead of www.company.com) would disappear.
PS: cPanel seems to support it ;-)
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