An idea about virtual hosting services

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
H-1132 Budapest, Victor Hugo str. 18-22, Hungary
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