Do SSL / X.509 certs cover all ports for a host?

Theoretically you can put anything you want in a certificate; for instance, this certificate actually contains a video file as "Subject Alt Name" (surprisingly, Windows has no trouble decoding a 1.2 MB certificate -- but it does not show the video, alas). However, in practice, certificates "for SSL" just contain the intended server name, as specified in RFC 2818. The client (Web browser) will verify that the name from the URL indeed appears where it should in the certificate. There is no standard for storing a port number in the certificate, and no client will verify the presence of that port number anyway, so, in short words: certificates are not port-specific. The notion of "identity" that certificates manipulate and embody does not include the notion of "port".

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Tls

X.509