Re: [Tclhttpd-users] virtual hosts

[Reinhard M. <ma...@tc...>]

Hi,

On Tue, 7 Nov 2006 at 14:33, Steve Blinkhorn wrote:

> For example, what does a virtual host name look like?

it looks like any other hostname. Virtual servers (in the http world) 
means that multple DNS records point to the same IP address and the 
server there is supposed to deliver different content depending on the 
name that was used. For that, the client adds a "Hostname:" field to 
the HTTP request to tell the server which of the virtual domains it is 
querying.

> In what sense is this feature an improvement over multiple servers 
> each on a separate connection?

You can save a lot on hardware, power and IP address space by placing 
many low-volume sites as virtual domains on a single physical machine 
with a single IP address.

cu
	Reinhard