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The latest version of links does support SNI.

I use several clients that do not support SNI and one workaround is to connect through a program that does support it, e.g. haproxy, socat, etc.

Privacy/censorship conscious users may dislike SNI, SSL/TLS implementors are now trying to "fix" it, and in fact most SSL/TLS-enabled websites do not require SNI to be sent (popular browsers send it anyway). If requested, I can post stats on whether SNI is required for any list of websites. I have already done this a couple of times with the list all sites currently posted on HN: only a minority require SNI.



According the changelog, SNI support was added in links 2.10:

   === RELEASE 2.10 ===
   
   […]
   
   Sat Jan 17 06:44:01 CET 2015 mikulas:
   
   	Enable SSL SNI, some servers need it
   
   […]




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