- From: S.R. Venkatramanan <S.Venkatramanan@eng.sun.com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 15:47:28 -0700
- To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com, paulle@microsoft.com
- Cc: S.Venkatramanan@eng.sun.com
> From http-wg-request@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com Tue Jul 9 15:24 PDT 1996 > > With the Host: header in HTTP/1.1 it is possible to efficiently and > easily make a single host act as many "virtual" Web sites. > > What I'd like to see in HTTP/1.2 is the ability to easily and > efficiently make multiple hosts act like a single virtual Web site, so > that one can build huge web sites. I think this is just an implementation, or rather, a site setup/administration problem than a protocol defeciency. How about using a round-robin DNS to map the hostname to multiple irons, use the power of such multiple hosts in the cluster to serve nfs mounted files from the same or similar pool. This will not necessitate redirection with Location: header; the name megasoft.com becomes virtual and need not be heavily loaded; the contents need not be replicated as they are all NFS mounted and hence distributed in the network (may be high speed because they are all potentially co-located). May be there are some other issues I am missing in this simpleton approach. s.r. ======================================================== S.R.Venkatramanan raven@Eng.Sun.COM Staff Engineer (415)786-9106 Internet Solutions Engineering 2550 Garcia Ave, M/S UMPK16-120 Sun Microsystems, Inc (SunSoft) Mountain View, CA 94043-1100
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