- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 20:07:10 PDT
- To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
I don't think we should provide specially for those clients that use IP addresses or partial host names instead of FQDNs, e.g., the client should send what it has, and the server should respond as best it can using what it gets. Almost all web services do not host multiple servers for a single site; we shouldn't impose any more computational work on the clients for the < 1% of hosts, who can deal with non-FQDNs and IP addresses in the same way that they deal with clients that don't send a 'Host:' field at all -- give a menu of choices, present a default, etc.
Received on Friday, 29 September 1995 20:09:52 UTC