policy change: static verification methods

On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 08:54:41PM +0100, Christian Kratzer wrote:

Hi,

> > I understand also your concern to push http 1.1, but you _can't_ sell 
> > the virtual web hosting without a fixed IP. The percentage of non 
> > http 1.1 compliant browser is just too high for a business customer 
> > to accept that is vanity name will not be seen by those.
> 
> The point is not having a http1.1 compliant browser. The point is 
> that the browser sends the http "Host:" header which the absolute 
> majority of browsers already do.  This has nothing to do with http1.1


I can only agree. We run several ten thousands of name based
virtual web servers, mostly "private" homepages but also a
significant percentage of business customers. There hasn't
been a single complaint that you cannot access those sites
with an ancient browser, mostly because you need a slightly
recent browser anyway to use 'modern' features like tables or
forms :)

Regards,
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