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SubjectRe: "Super" IP aliases?
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In article <cistron.20000321225827.A25812@sonic.net>,
Scott Doty <scott@sonic.net> wrote:
>Incidentally, I've received a few emails asking why we're not
>using name-based virtual hosts. The short answer is a) some
>browsers don't send a "Host:" header; and b) our systems are set
>up for IP hosts, which would be a pain to change.

a) is true if 'some' means 0.000001%. I maintain thousands of virtual
hosts with millions of hits per day and I cannot remember when I
last saw in the logfiles that someone was using a browser that
didn't send the Host: header.

Besides, a browser like that won't be able to view todays HTML anyway.

Think again - you're wasting precious IP space .. RIPE (the European
equivalent of ARIN) will not even honour requests for IP allocations
for web servers anymore in most cases.

Mike.
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How do you eat soup in the matrix...?

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