IP assignment for virtual webhosting

[apologies for the large Cc: list, not sure what to take out]

According to Sam Bradford:
> Although the amount of clients connecting with 1.0 may be very little in
> most cases, it does still happen.
> We have customers specifically state that
> they do not want to set up http 1.1 because at the end of the day, some
> people will not be able to view their (and/or their clients') web sites,
> which is fair enough. If they want to ensure that every person possible can
> access their site, I believe they should have that right.

There is one thing people are forgetting to mention.

This isn't about HTTP/1.1. It is about the Host: header, which is
indeed in the HTTP/1.1 standard but is _also_ an allowed extension
to HTTP/1.0. In fact, all HTTP/1.0 compliant browsers less than say
four or five years old send this Host: header even in HTTP/1.0 requests.

Netscape 1.x and up do, MSIE 3.x and up do. Is there anyone still
using Netscape 0.x or MSIE 2.x ? If so, chances are that they can't
view 95% of all sites anyway because of HTML shortcomings ..

Mike.
-- 
First things first, but not necessarily in that order.