[plug] Apache non-ip virtual hosting

[Bret Busby]

For the sake of those of us, who do not understand this one, and would 
like to understand, could someone please explain what non-ip-aliasing 
is, how it relates to ip-aliasing, and the ip virtual hosting, and how 
it all relates to the different versions of http?

Thanks.

Bret Busby

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

On 5/31/99, 10:00:39 AM, Matt Kemner <zombie at networx.net.au> wrote 
regarding Re: [plug] Apache non-ip virtual hosting:


> 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