- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@hal.com>
- Date: Fri, 10 Feb 95 09:07:20 CST
- To: uri@bunyip.com, http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
- Cc: connolly@hal.com
This seems to be a common naming problem on the web: Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.providers,comp.infosystems.www.misc From: root@rco.qc.ca (Francois Vrana) Organization: Inter-Acces Communications Date: Sat, 4 Feb 1995 17:33:06 GMT Lines: 20 I have always wondered which www servers support the following: would it be possible to have different 'home pages' brought up based on different 'domain names' when users are accessing this server? ex: bigsite.com and tinysite.com both map to the same address: 199.84.201.1 and the same physical server, but different home pages would be given based on the DNS name selected. does anyone know of servers that support this 'off the shelf' ? One solution is to change HTTP clients to send full URLs all the time (rather than just on proxy accesses). But as another solution, it seems that something like the MX record facility for finding SMTP servers would work well for HTTP servers. This "HX record" would map a domain name to one or more domain/port pairs or perhaps to one or more URL prefixes, ala: HX bigsite.com http://provider.net/bigsite HX bigsite.com http://other.provider.net/bigsite HX tinysite.com http://provider.net/tinysite It seems to me that we've had this discussion before, but I don't remember the resolution. Any pointers? Thanks. Dan
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