"Virtual" web servers (was Re: IP Allocation)
Jared Mauch
jared at wolverine.hq.cic.net
Wed Nov 20 16:01:01 UTC 1996
For an example of HTTP/1.1, you can go to http://puck.nether.net/
and http://www.ttgcitn.com/ as examples. They are both on the same machine.
There are many virtual hosts there that are done with http/1.1,
and only one that is done with an extra IP.
- Jared
Pete Davis graced my mailbox with this long sought knowledge:
> > Am I getting confused here myself, or are we talking about HTTP/1.1
> > rather than HTML 1.1 ?
>
> We are in fact talking about HTTP/1.1. It was a quick brain typo.
>
> > One good reason at the moment for not moving to only providing support
> > for HTTP/1.1 is the lack of support for it in lynx, which many blind
> > people use as a browser, and lack of support for which by ISPs would
> > probably be fairly politically unpopular.
>
> Lynx 2.5 and 2.6 appear to be HTTP/1.1 compliant and support the
> host feature that we are talking about. (Atleast in the testing we have
> done).
>
> -Pete
>
>
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