Apache + subdomains = wildcard SSL required?

Can one use a regular old 128-bit SSL cert. w/ subdomains?

To elaborate, I'm purchasing my cert. for www.domain.com, however, I also have VirtualHosts setup in apache (pointing to different directories of the webroot).

So will visiting https://about.domain.com/ with a certificate that is issued for www.domain.com ask the user to accept the cert for this session / permanently. After all, if the user types https://www.domains.com/about, he'll end up in the same place as https://about.domain.com/

However, my suspicion is that if I want to accomplish the above I'm going to have to shell out 750 bones to buy a wildcard certificate Apache + subdomains = wildcard SSL required? ?!?

Thanks.

 

 

 

 

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