Virtual Web Hosting Services

Another aspect of virtual servers is that people who actually has tried
implementing Daniel's second method 
  (which was a CNAME from www.company.com to www.provider.com and
   referring to the page as http://www.company.com/company/)
discovers that the most popular web browsers makes a dns lookup followed 
by a reverse lookup of the URL they are looking at and presents this 
information at the top of the page.  This means that a reference to 
http://www.company.com/company/ will show up as 
http://www.provider.com/company/ on the user's screen.

I can understand that from a marketing point, this is not a good thing.

There has been endless discussions about this on the web developers 
lists, but I think this has been resolved by proposing a new HTTP header 
"Host:" instead of passing the full URL, since this would break older 
implementations of HTTP servers (~40000 installed).

-Rickard

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