[6219] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "Virtual" web servers (was Re: IP Allocation)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Wed Nov 20 11:12:11 1996
From: Jared Mauch <jared@wolverine.hq.cic.net>
In-Reply-To: <199611201528.KAA13258@eagle.deardorff.com> from Pete Davis at "Nov 20, 96 10:28:31 am"
To: pete@eagle.deardorff.com (Pete Davis)
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 11:01:01 -0500 (EST)
Cc: mjc@cooper.org.uk, nanog@merit.edu
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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