Re: Decision about Host?
M. Hedlund (hedlund@best.com)
Thu, 5 Oct 1995 17:58:43 -0700
At 4:52 PM 10/5/95, Balint Nagy Endre wrote:
>>Jeffrey Mogul writes: [...]
>> Good point about the current naming schemes. But then what does it
>> mean if a client sends:
>>
>> Host: www
>>
>> To me, this is an error, and the server can report it as such.
>> What else could it possibly do? [...]
>
>300 Multipe choices would be fine.
Not if the provider wished to make one or more of the choices semi-private
(i.e., only available by explicit request). Also, in the case Andrew
mentioned -- where an ISP wishes to give each of many customers an unique
domain name -- there could be many, many choices available. (See
<URL:ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/>, if you can get to it.)
M. Hedlund <hedlund@best.com>
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