Re: [Tclhttpd-users] virtual hosts

[Steve B. <st...@pr...>]

>>>Reinhard Max said:
 > 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.
 > 

What about multiple software servers, i.e. instances of tclhttpd, each
responding to a different virtual domain but using the same port
number, although on just one IP address?   And when did this feature
arrive in tclhttpd? (I am a long-term user, BTW).

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Steve Blinkhorn <st...@pr...>