Re: Shared IP's via HTTP_HOST (new standard?)

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From: Anirvan Chatterjee
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 00:00

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In ba.internet G. Herrmannsfeldt <gah@u.washington.edu> wrote:
> Most sites now use features that make them incompatible with HTTP v1.0,
> anyway, so it would seem to me that this is the right way to go.

How so? Besides host-header-based virtualhosts, what other
post-HTTP/1.0 features are commonly required?

<sigh> I can just imagine sites adorned with "Best viewed with
HTTP/1.1 Keep-Alives" buttons.

> If the server does put in the page of pointers, it means one extra
> mouse click to get to the page they wanted.

Another problem with HTTP/1.0 based browsers accessing
host-header-based virtualhosts: all non-relative links will be
unusable.

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Subject: Re: Shared IP's via HTTP_HOST (new standard?)
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