[plug] Apache non-ip virtual hosting

[Matt Kemner]

On Sun, 30 May 1999, Garth Atkinson wrote:

> I will probably have to use convential ip-aliasing and ip virtual hosting
> as a result of the http 1.1 requirement. I just checked the access logs
> for a low profile apache server and saw about %20 of the traffic seemed
> to come from browsers using http 1.0.

Many browsers say "GET / HTTP/1.0" even though they do support that
particular part of the 1.1 protocol, so that's a bad indication.

What you should look for, is if they send the Host: header (which apache
uses to find out what hostname the request was directed at)

I've been using non-ip virtual hosts for over 100 domains for over a year
now, and have not had a single complaint that someone got our homepage
rather than the page they were really looking for.
 
 - Matt