[WEB4LIB] Re: Library Name in URL

[Dan Lester]

At 11:48 AM 3/5/99 -0800, James Klock wrote:
>Incidentally, "virtual hosting" is handled by the web server (not the
>browser),
Not completely.  Early browser software (pre NS2, if memory serves) does 
NOT support virtual hosting, nor does Lynx.  If people with old software, 
or those committed to Lynx are part of your user community, you may want to 
rething this.  In our library community those folks are about 0.3 percent, 
so we "disenfranchise them".   Not a perfect world.

cheers

dan







>some doesn't, and if your doesn't, it's not neccesarily trivial to change
>server software.
>Virtual hosting does not result in the creation of a new host per se
>(there's no new computer which is serving any data).  Rather, an existing
>host is referenced within the DNS under the new hostname.
>
>Virtual hosting requires the cooperation of both your DNS administrator and
>your web server administrator.  In many cases, these are the same person
>(or at least the same department).  YMMV.
>
>James

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