- From: Dave J Woolley <DJW@bts.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 12:14:00 +0100
- To: "'www-amaya@w3.org'" <www-amaya@w3.org>
> From: Eddie Maddox [SMTP:emaddox@sihope.com] > "404 Not Found > The requested URL /usr/home/[...].html was not found on this server." > > - Is the server refered to the Local machine (where I am running Amaya) or > the Remote ISP machine? > The remote web server machine, which may be owned by the content provider or even on the content provider's premises. > - Why does the error message omit the "http://www.sihope.com" portion of > the path even though I did include it? > Because it is not transmitted in the HTTP request (at least for HTTP/1.0), as the destination server already knows its own name (actually some sorts of virtual server require this information, but it is sent separately from the URL, e.g.: GET /xxxxxx HTTP/1.1 Host: www.sihope.com but only relatively recent clients and servers use and understand Host headers. > ------------------ > Eddie Maddox > emaddox@sihope.com >
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