An idea about virtual hosting services
- Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 18:12:46 +0100 (MET)
Dear All,
I have an idea about virtual servers.
There should be a new DNS resource record, containing additional
port or URL information. Or this info may be recorded in TXT records:
E.g.
www.company1.xx. CNAME www.provider.xx.
TXT "HTTP-PORT:881"
www.company2.xx. CNAME www.provider.xx.
TXT "HTTP-PORT:882"
or
www.company1.xx. CNAME www.provider.xx.
TXT "HTTP-PATH:/company1"
www.company2.xx. CNAME www.provider.xx.
TXT "HTTP-PATH:/company2"
or even without TXT, using just some special hostnames
www.company1.xx. CNAME http-port-881.www.provider.xx.
http-port-881.www.provider.xx. CNAME www.provider.xx.
www.company2.xx. CNAME http-port-882.www.provider.xx.
http-port-882.www.provider.xx. CNAME www.provider.xx.
(OK, I know www.company1.xx may not have CNAME and TXT at the same
time. This is just a demonstration.)
Then webmaster at www.provider.xx should set up a
document hierarchy as usual:
http://www.provider.xx/company1/intro.html
http://www.provider.xx/company2/intro.html
and/or run differend http servers on different ports.
A slighly enhanced browser would realize the additional information
from DNS and changes the user given URL http://www.company1.xx
to http://www.provider.xx:881 or http://www.provider.xx/company1.
Unmodified browsers can reach the docs as do now.
Sorry if I was too boring. ;-)
Gabor
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Gabor Kiss
Computer and Automation Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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