Greetings, I've put together a test page at "http://www.atmnet.net/testhttp/". This will tell you if your browser supports the Host variable. I would like to compile a list of which browsers do and do not. This should help companies decide whether it is appropriate to replace their web servers with http 1.1 compliant ones to do virtual hosting. We have seen many problems with traditional virtual web serving for instance: - Many OS implementations make it difficult to support more than a few IP's per physical card. - Many OS implementations do not support superneting - Some OSs do not support load balancing therefor web trafic management is problematic - Large amounts of IP address space is needed. - Most OSs barf with large numbers of IPs So IMHO web server based virtual hosting is the way to go. -Jay-

Subject: Re: "Virtual" web servers (was Re: IP Allocation)

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Am I getting confused here myself, or are we talking about HTTP/1.1 rather than HTML 1.1 ?

We are in fact talking about HTTP/1.1. It was a quick brain typo.

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One good reason at the moment for not moving to only providing support for HTTP/1.1 is the lack of support for it in lynx, which many blind people use as a browser, and lack of support for which by ISPs would probably be fairly politically unpopular.

Lynx 2.5 and 2.6 appear to be HTTP/1.1 compliant and support the host feature that we are talking about. (Atleast in the testing we have done).

-Pete

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