[6217] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "Virtual" web servers (was Re: IP Allocation)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pete Davis)
Wed Nov 20 10:39:37 1996
From: Pete Davis <pete@eagle.deardorff.com>
To: mjc@cooper.org.uk
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 10:28:31 -0500 (EST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199611201505.PAA21860@diamond.xara.net> from "Martin Cooper" at Nov 20, 96 03:05:51 pm
> 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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