[10452] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Proxy and loopback addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Luigi Rizzo)
Mon Dec 9 14:53:31 1996
From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
To: Peter.Sylvester@EdelWeb.fr (Peter Sylvester)
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 20:04:13 +0100 (MET)
Cc: www-talk@w3.org, ps@EdelWeb.fr
In-Reply-To: <199612091926.UAA04113@lanson.gctech.edelweb.fr> from "Peter Sylvester" at Dec 9, 96 08:26:02 pm
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
> Hello,
>
> I wonder if someone can tell me what browsers are supposed to do with
>
> http://127.0.0.1/...
>
> and whether someone can tell me what browsers actually do.
>
> If you have a proxy it seems to me that most of them (if not all) access
> that "host" through the proxy (unless one EXPLICITELY configures
> them not to do so).
and at least some resolve any hostname locally, so if you are on
host.your.net and ask for http://www/someurl to proxy.some.net the
thing serves you http://www.some.net/someurl instead of
http://www.your.net/someurl as you would get if not using a proxy.
I don't know who should add the proper suffixes to a hostname, if
the client or the proxy.
Luigi
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