- From: Mike Cowlishaw <mfc@vnet.ibm.com>
- Date: Sun, 12 Feb 95 16:22:52 GMT
- To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
My recent post was perhaps too terse: I intended to imply that 'if this extension is indeed needed, then why isn't the proposal to add the information as a header rather than modifying the Request line'. As to whether the extension is needed, I'd lean towards Chuck Shotton's view. In particular, I publish a page-tree (http://rexx.hursley.ibm.com/rexx) whose address is actually an alias for www.hursley.ibm.com because I expect to move it to a separate physical box as soon as the details (like buying the hardware) can be finalized. I've discovered that all over the net, pages from my data are being quoted as at the 'www...' address because some WWW clients are doing the back-substitution when connecting to anything below the index.html. Given the Full-URL (by whatever means), I could warn people that they're using a suspect address. Without it, I can't. Mike Cowlishaw
Received on Sunday, 12 February 1995 08:25:40 UTC