SNI  or server name indication is an addition or an extension to the TLS protocol, which again stands for transport layer security. So, basically server name indication allows the client to indicate the host where it wants to terminate the encrypted session.   It allows a server to present multiple certificates on the same IP address and TCP port number and hence allows multiple secure (https) websites to be served by the same IP address without requiring all those sites to use the same certificate.

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