RE: [cobalt-users] Virtual Hosting and 2.0 browsers

[Sales - Way to the Web <sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Dom,

> > I'm about 100% sure that Netscape has worked with HTTP 1.1 
> since v2.0, IE
> > didn't support it until v3.0.
> 
> My log files show that Netscape 4.7 makes 1.0 requests, and IE 4.72
> makes 1.1 requests.

It would seem then, that the log is misleading. I've done a few quick
searched on the internet at it appears what I said is definitely true, and
that the HTTP/1.1 issue is down to browser version. Here are some links, the
first from Apache explaining the problem, a few from tech support sites for
web hosting supporting the argument:

http://www.apache.org/docs/vhosts/name-based.html
http://docs.rinet.ru:8083/Apachu/asg04.htm#E68E33 (which I believe has the
version for IE wrong)
http://iperweb.net/eng/html/http11.html
http://www.flvacationcondo.com/support/vservers/faq/vhost.html#What are the
limitations of Virtual Hosting
http://www.boydenterprises.net/Support/support101.htm
http://www.techdroid.net/guide/chapter=15&sec=2.0000.html

I did a lot of work investigating HTTP/1.1 when IIS4 came out (the first
version of IIS to support the protocol) and remember the limitations quite
clearly.

It *is* curious that the logs don't seem to reflect this, but the problem
being experienced seems clearly to do with this issue and the browser
version.

Regards,
Jonathan Michaelson

Way to the Web Ltd
Web Hosting, E-Commerce and CGI Scripting
http://www.waytotheweb.com