If the browser is configured to generate an alert when the requested hostname doesn't match the subject of the SSL certificate a site presents, then I could see that it would work in IE. However, with default settings in IE, you should see the mismatched certificate warning. By design of SSL certificates there isn't a way to configure a web server to prevent the client from 'seeing' that the cert isn't valid. You'd need to get a certificate which is valid for the host name that the client requests, or change the browser settings for each client.
I'm not sure if it's feasible for you to do, but if you could have the clients make the first request to http://urlname.com (instead of http
s://urlname.com), you could avoid the cert mismatch issue.
Aaron
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