Re: Proxies and gethostbyname

On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Roy T. Fielding wrote:

> >I disagree ... there is a large difference between not being able to
> >resolve a name and not being able to connect to an IP address.
> 
> >From the point of view of the proxy, yes.  From the user's perspective,
> both indicate a failure of the proxy to map the identifier to a service.

No,  one is a failure to map to the service, the second is a failure of
the service. Failure to map is often under the user's control or in the
case of some UAs which try multiple URLs, the UA's control.

Dave