Re: Virtual Web Hosting Services
- Date: Sat, 18 Nov 1995 14:47:52 +0100 (MET)
Another aspect of virtual servers is that people who actually has tried
implementing Daniel's second method
(which was a CNAME from www.company.com to www.provider.com and
referring to the page as http://www.company.com/company/)
discovers that the most popular web browsers makes a dns lookup followed
by a reverse lookup of the URL they are looking at and presents this
information at the top of the page. This means that a reference to
http://www.company.com/company/ will show up as
http://www.provider.com/company/ on the user's screen.
I can understand that from a marketing point, this is not a good thing.
There has been endless discussions about this on the web developers
lists, but I think this has been resolved by proposing a new HTTP header
"Host:" instead of passing the full URL, since this would break older
implementations of HTTP servers (~40000 installed).
-Rickard
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