Re: Domains and HTTP_HOST
Klaus Johannes Rusch (e8726057@student.tuwien.ac.at)
Wed, 6 Nov 1996 22:29:11 CET
In <199611061329.GAA27547@smtp.radzone.org>, Brian Clark <bclark@radzone.org> writes:
> You see this effect through
> the search engine databanks ... most typically, they do encounter the
> correct pages at some point during their crawl, turning a URL like:
>
> http://www.mydomain.com/
>
> to something like:
>
> http://www.mydomain.com/mydomain/
>
> Which isn't always a valid link for every browser (since a browser that the
> HTTP_HOST variable is now likely to get a 404.)
Wouldn't it be reasonable for the server to redirect requests for
http://www.mydomain.com/mydomain/* to http://www.mydomain.com/* if the
browser sends a Host: header?
Klaus Johannes Rusch
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