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Date:      Tue, 23 Jul 96 20:19:55 +0300
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@gns.com.br>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Virtual domains? (fwd)
Message-ID:  <9607231719.AA0111@DANIEL.gns.net.br>

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I'm not sure if the virtual domains question came from here or
current, but...

Forwarded message:
> 
> >> "Software Virtual Servers" are part of the http/1.1 standard (proposed),
> >> and were first implememted by the Netscape servers. One thing to remember
> >> with these "non-ip based" virtual servers is that to date, only Netscape
> >                                                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >> Navigator sends the required HEADER to let the web server know the NAME of
> >  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >> the domain it's after. So if most of your hits are coming from Nav. 2.0 or
> >> higher, it's safe to use Software Virtual Servers. If you have a lot of
> >> hits from places like AOL or Compuserve, however, it would be a bad idea
> >> to implement either Netscape's or Apache's new virtual domain method.
> >
> >Is that so?
> 
> 	No.  Lynx2-5 sends a Host: header as described in the
> HTTP/1.1 working drafts.
> 
> 	I don't know about AOL/Compuserve, but I'd be surprised
> if the current client didn't.  The July 1996 HTTP/1.1 RFC is in
> last call, and the procedure is not "new" at this point (been
> in wide use for more than a year).

Which remind me I should check if the lynx port has already been
updated to, at least, 2-5. It should be a matter of two minutes,
*after* understanding the port process (:-), since 2-5FM (I don't
know about 2-5) has been accepting "make freebsd" and "make
freebsd-ncurses" (which requires an additional -DNCURSESHEADER to be
inserted) for some time now...

-- 
Daniel C. Sobral                (8-DCS)
dcs@gns.com.br
e8917523@linf.unb.br



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