"Lavender, Brian E SPK" wrote:
>
> named based virtual hosting is something that is a more recent development
> as I understand. The browser sends the host name which gets set as an
> environment variable for the web server. The web server will know to respond
> to that host name based upon its virtual hosting configuration. So if you
> have five domain names resolving to the same IP address for www, the name
> based virtual hosting will be able to distinguish which hostname was
> requested. Previous to this, multiple IP addresses were aliased to the same
> interface (It sounds like you are familiar with this). Name based virtual
> hosting works with IE 4 and above and Netscape 4 and above. I don't know
> about lynx. Anyone know if it works with lynx?
>
> If you have a browser that doesn't send the host information, Apache will
> respond with the default configuration for the IP address the host name
> resolved to.
>
> Any corrections to this?
>
> brian
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mike Machado [mailto:mike@innercite.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 1999 10:23 AM
> > To: lug-nuts@saclug.org
> > Subject: Re: [lug-nuts] How do I get a block of IP addresses?
> >
> > If you bought a T1 from us (InnerCite) we have tons of addresses left.
> > We would be more than happy to give you what you need. I know this
> > sounds like an ad but I am just trying to answer your needs.
> > Also the 1
> > IP for multiple hosts is a good idea, and is sometimes referred to as
> > 'named based virtual hosts'.
>
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I beleive its IE 3 and above and NS 3 (maybe 2) and above.
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