[10062] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Getting the domain from a request under HTTP/1.0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Masinter)
Fri Jun 14 01:10:32 1996
To: matt@wdi.co.uk
Cc: www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: Matthew Denner's message of Wed, 12 Jun 1996 23:14:01 PDT <31BFB1A9.663D@wdi.co.uk>
From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 22:05:06 PDT
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
When 98% of your requests come with a 'host' header (or less if you
dare) you can make http://www.wdi.co.uk/ respond with its own home
page listing the various companies that are actually supported on the
server.
Some small percentage of users with old clients will have to make
another click.
I'm told that some sites are getting a 60% hit rate of clients with
'Host:', so if we're luckly, deployment might be rapid enough to make
this feasible quickly.
