- From: Dave Kristol <dmk@acm.org>
- Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:21:18 +0000
- To: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
David Morris wrote: > [...] > Certainly at the time a big stick was felt to be necessary to make sure > the feature was supported by all general UAs. More history: Back then (c.1996) there was great concern that the sudden and rapid proliferation of web servers would deplete the IPv4 address space, because each needed its own address. The Host header enabled virtual servers, which, in turn, made possible IP address sharing. But UAs obviously had to support (i.e., send) the Host header for the sharing to work. Dave Kristol
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