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Date:      Wed, 12 Apr 2000 17:58:38 -0400 (EDT)
From:      <up@3.am>
To:        Alan Batie <batie@rdrop.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How many Virtual Hosts?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10004121755050.46440-100000@richard2.pil.net>
In-Reply-To: <20000412141016.05307@rdrop.com>

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On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Alan Batie wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 03:41:43PM -0500, James Wyatt wrote:
> > You don't *have* to bind each virtual host under Apache, it's just that
> > some browsers and crawlers don't like it. - Jy@
> 
> Yes, but that's not restricted to Apache; if you've got an HTTP 1.0-only
> browser, it just doesn't send enough information for the server to figure
> out which virtual host was intended.  Binding to the IP address is the only
> way to handle them.  Hopefully they're few enough to ignore these days
> though.

It's important to note that most browsers that are http 1.0 browsers still
did http 1.1 header redirection.  Netscape 2.x and 3.x, and IE 3.x and
4.x, notably.

To actually run into a browser that won't properly display header
redirected pages, you'd have to be talking about Netscape 1.x, IE 2.x or
earlier, Mosaic, Red Baron or older versions of Lynx...I can't think of
any others off the top of my head, but we're talking fewer than 1% of the
browsers currently in use.

James Smallacombe		      PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor
up@3.am							    http://3.am
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