- From: Shel Kaphan <sjk@amazon.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 11:02:23 -0800
- To: drtr1@cus.cam.ac.uk (David Robinson)
- Cc: martin@mrrl.lut.ac.uk, www-talk@w3.org
David Robinson writes: > >From: Martin Hamilton <martin@mrrl.lut.ac.uk> > > > >I was just wondering whether there are any HTTP servers out there > >which let the server admin configure redirects based on the > >client's domain name. ... > Whilst this may be the best that one can do with current protocols, it > seems to approach the problem from the angle. > > Rather than trying to force the client to use the server that you think > would be best for it, it would seem better to provide data to allow the > client to choose. ... > > David Robinson. > I'm going to float this idea because I thought of it, not necessarily because I have thought it through . . . wouldn't this be the kind of thing it would be nice if DNS could do for you? There's already a round-robin feature in it which some people use for load balancing. Letting people pick a mirror site without having to make an HTTP connection at all seems like a related feature. --Shel Kaphan
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