Re: Handling ambiguous requests

From: Y. John Jiang <yjj@rad.balink.com> Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 18:08:33 -0400 Message-Id: <9609061808.ZM6582@orchid.rad.balink.com> To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com · This archive was generated by hypermail pre-2.1.9 : Wednesday, 24 September 2003 06:32:13 EDT

On Sep 5,  6:40pm, Patrick Montelo wrote:

> GET http://204.4.214.77/ HTTP/1.1    <<< IP maps to more than one domain
> name/alias

I would have a default host for these.  If the webmaster does not
explicitly specify a default, the first virtual host should be used.

> GET http://pmontelo/ HTTP/1.1        <<< Request from inside the
> spyglass.com domain

I would take the IP of "pmontelo" and deal with it as
above.

John