From nobody@hyperreal.com Fri May 16 11:01:31 1997 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by hyperreal.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA18156; Fri, 16 May 1997 11:01:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199705161801.LAA18156@hyperreal.com> Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 11:01:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Aaron Blanton Reply-To: abla@ballistic.com To: apbugs@hyperreal.com Subject: Problem W/ "Older" browsers not being able to access Virtual hosts on a Shared IP X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.2 >Number: 591 >Category: general >Synopsis: Problem W/ "Older" browsers not being able to access Virtual hosts on a Shared IP >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: apache >State: closed >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: apache >Arrival-Date: Fri May 16 11:10:01 1997 >Last-Modified: Fri May 16 11:30:10 PDT 1997 >Originator: abla@ballistic.com >Organization: >Release: 1.2b10 >Environment: BSD/OS mail.ballistic.com 2.0 BSDI BSD/OS 2.0 Kernel #0: Sat Jan 20 19:10:40 >Description: wondering if there was a fix concerning "Older" browsers attempting to to connect to virutal hosts. ie Netscape 1.0. is it a problem w/ the browser, or the server. it appears (to me) that netscape 1.0 requests pages via IP rather than name.. if i'm wrong, and there is a way around this, i'd Love to know it. >How-To-Repeat: http://home.ballistic.com, http://pntl.com, http://www.auainc.com >Fix: Upgrade browser.. not always a possiblity for some "Technology Challenged" Peopl >Audit-Trail: State-Changed-From-To: open-closed State-Changed-By: marc State-Changed-When: Fri May 16 11:30:09 PDT 1997 State-Changed-Why: 'Host:' header (ie. non-IP) based virtual hosting will not work with older browsers because they don't support it. This is documented. The only real workaround is to put up a default page that lets people with older clients pick what site they wanted, but that is something of an ugly hack. It is a limitation in the older HTTP protocol; there is nothing Apache can do to avoid it. >Unformatted: