From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 12 14:58:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from richard2.pil.net (richard2.pil.net [207.8.164.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7313B37B5D6 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 14:58:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from up@3.am) Received: (qmail 48315 invoked by uid 1825); 12 Apr 2000 21:58:38 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 12 Apr 2000 21:58:38 -0000 Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 17:58:38 -0400 (EDT) From: X-Sender: up@richard2.pil.net To: Alan Batie Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How many Virtual Hosts? In-Reply-To: <20000412141016.05307@rdrop.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ========================================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message