- From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
- Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 20:04:13 +0100 (MET)
- To: Peter.Sylvester@EdelWeb.fr (Peter Sylvester)
- Cc: www-talk@w3.org, ps@EdelWeb.fr
> Hello, > > I wonder if someone can tell me what browsers are supposed to do with > > http://127.0.0.1/... > > and whether someone can tell me what browsers actually do. > > If you have a proxy it seems to me that most of them (if not all) access > that "host" through the proxy (unless one EXPLICITELY configures > them not to do so). and at least some resolve any hostname locally, so if you are on host.your.net and ask for http://www/someurl to proxy.some.net the thing serves you http://www.some.net/someurl instead of http://www.your.net/someurl as you would get if not using a proxy. I don't know who should add the proper suffixes to a hostname, if the client or the proxy. Luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________
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