Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 16:50:36 +0100 (BST) From: Manar Hussain <manar@ivision.co.uk> To: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@cybernothing.org> Cc: marcin@v-m.com, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multipe Domains on a single IP Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.93.970624164209.12814L-100000@stingray.ivision.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <19970624113610.26541@cybernothing.org>
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>> (b) It *WILL* work with most modern browsers - problem is it doesn't (I >> believe) work with the AOL browser and possibly some other online services >> ... > > I don't want to get into a religious war here, but even > in the really early days of the web (like, back when gopher > was more popular) the term "most modern browsers" included > anything which had come out within the last six months to > a year...and my own referer logs (when I bothered to keep > them, a few months ago) showed a surprising number of folks > still running Netscape 0.94! > > From a networking point of view, the VirtualHost kludge > should never have been allowed to happen. But we can't get > rid of it by alienating a large percentage of users; it's > just too soon. (IMHO.) Netscape 2+ supports it - I'm not sure if MSIE2 does but MSIE3 does and if you're using MSIE2 you need shooting (no - not because it's old but because it's 'orribly broken and MSIE3 is free). I've handled a lots of sites and a LOT of hits across those sites and this accounts for the vast majority of browsers. In fact it's pretty close to the stage where flushing out people with browsers that don't support it and getting them to upgrade would be a good idea! (I say that a little tongue in cheek as I know the problems that can be associated with expecting everyone to use netscape2+ or equiv). However it not supportign AOL users is something to bear strongly in mind - unless you specifically want to exclude them (and there are a lot of them) you can't use it ...
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