Why isn’t it possible to use a CNAME alias to Google Storage with HTTPS? [closed]
Assume you have a CNAME record: travel-maps.example.com CNAME c.commondatastorage.googleapis.com. Browser resolves name travel-maps.example.com and gets IP for c.commondatastorage.googleapis.com, then connects to port 443 of this address. Server with this IP couldn’t possibly[1] have proper certificate for travel-maps.example.com (and all other domain names with CNAME records like this). Only example.com domain owner could get a trusted … Read more