- From: darrell starnes <Darrell=Starnes%AppSrv%Sys=Hou@bangate.compaq.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Dec 96 14:20:31 CST
- To: <www-jigsaw@w3.org>
I configured Jigsaw as a proxy. Now NT has an interesting feature. It supports a server alias sort of by default. For instance, my server is named darrell in the NT space. In the IP space it is named darrell.wins.compaq.com. You can PING darrell or darrell.wins.compaq.com. They both work. However, when Jigsaw initializes, the host name he gets is darrell.wins.compaq.com. Ok, now it gets interesting..... I tell my browser to go to http://darrell.wins.compaq.com/ and everything works fine... I tell my browser to go to http://darrell/ and.... Jigsaw interprets request as a proxy request and forwards packet to darrell. Jigsaw receives this request and interprets request as a proxy request and...well you get the idea. Jigsaw loops until it fails with a null pointer exception in AgentIn (I think the debugger crashed, cafe 1.51 you know). This is not a virtual host issue. Virtual hosts have different IP addresses. IP name aliases are multiple names for the same IP address. Questions: 1) I am not sure if HTTP spec. requires proxy to validate host names, check for validity, etc.? Can someone clarify..maybe its in the URI spec.? 2) Should Jigsaw Proxy also check the IP address and not just the name of the host? 3) Should Jigsaw Proxy try to get the default name of the host he is trying to contact? 4) I haven't tried it yet, but NT allows multiple NICs each with a different IP address and possibly different domain names but same host name. How will Jigsaw react to this situation? How should it react? Darrell Starnes Internet Solutions Division, Compaq Computer email: starnes@netgate.compaq.com voice: 713-518-3812
Received on Tuesday, 10 December 1996 15:42:30 UTC