Re: [cobalt-users] IP vs Name Based Hosting

[Paul Schreiber <cheesefactory@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Balázs Nagy <bn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Last I knew, the major search engines use HTTP/1.0 spiders.  If you
> connect
> > to port 80 of any name based site and do the standard GET / HTTP/1.0, you
> > receive the content of the first site within the listing of name based
> > hosts.  This is exactly what the above mentioned spiders will see, not
the
> > intended content of the name based site.

> I realize that this won't help with Lycos/Alta Vista..., but I think that
> they might be up to date.

Well, my experience has been they *do* support http 1.1. I've search for my
site with google, altavista and hotbot and found it.

Paul

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