- From: M. Hedlund <hedlund@best.com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Oct 1995 17:58:43 -0700
- To: http WG <http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
At 4:52 PM 10/5/95, Balint Nagy Endre wrote: >>Jeffrey Mogul writes: [...] >> Good point about the current naming schemes. But then what does it >> mean if a client sends: >> >> Host: www >> >> To me, this is an error, and the server can report it as such. >> What else could it possibly do? [...] > >300 Multipe choices would be fine. Not if the provider wished to make one or more of the choices semi-private (i.e., only available by explicit request). Also, in the case Andrew mentioned -- where an ISP wishes to give each of many customers an unique domain name -- there could be many, many choices available. (See <URL:ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/>, if you can get to it.) M. Hedlund <hedlund@best.com> D9 05 63 C1 49 06 2F EA D7 0A 0E 94 6A C3 40 E9
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