Multi-Homing from Anselm Baird_Smith on 1997-01-13 (www-jigsaw@w3.org from January to February 1997)

From: Anselm Baird_Smith <abaird@www43.inria.fr>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 09:25:57 +0100 (MET)
To: John Mitchell <johnm@non.net>
Cc: www-jigsaw@www10.w3.org
Message-Id: <199701130825.JAA26502@www43.inria.fr>

John Mitchell writes:
 > I've read through the archive and the documentation but what's the deal
 > with not supporting multiple-ip based virtual hosts in Jigsaw?  From a
 > reply in the archive it seemed that this lack is due to some design
 > decision?
 > 
 > What's the scoop?

The scoop is that Java (until 1.1) didn't support the appropriate
calls to do that. Since 1.1 allows for it, it should be pretty easy to
extend the VirtualHostResource to handle it.

Anselm.

Received on Monday, 13 January 1997 03:29:34 UTC