- From: Balint Nagy Endre <bne@bne.ind.eunet.hu>
- Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 04:46:45 +0100 (MET)
- To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Cc: http WG <http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Larry Masinter writes: > 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. The possible source of the partial host names is the user itself. Clients use what they get. > Almost all web services do not host multiple servers for a single Now. But later? > 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. Good idea! If a multi-identity server can't determine the intended identity to use, either shall present a menu of choices (preferred) or present the default identity. The question is: We should add this to the section, describing Host: or open a new section dedicated to multi-identity servers? NOTE: The same problem of IP addresses and partial host names appears when a client uses a proxy. Andrew. (Endre Balint Nagy) <bne@bne.ind.eunet.hu>
Received on Saturday, 30 September 1995 21:42:44 UTC