On 15 Jul 2010, at 16:32, Tim Funk funk...@apache.org wrote:
IIRC, there is no requirement. But from a mapping point of view, the name
used should match what the browser is sending in the Host: field.
Except when the request is deliberately being directed to the defaultHost -
which is
I'm teaching a Tomcat course today and tomorrow and one of the students
raised the question why is the default host called localhost? The
implied relationship to 127.0.0.1 was causing confusion. That got me
thinking:
1. Is there a better name for the default host
2. If there is, should we
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 01:51:04PM +0100, Mark Thomas wrote:
I'm teaching a Tomcat course today and tomorrow and one of the students
raised the question why is the default host called localhost? The
implied relationship to 127.0.0.1 was causing confusion. That got me
thinking:
I am about
2010/7/15 Mark Thomas ma...@apache.org:
I'm teaching a Tomcat course today and tomorrow and one of the students
raised the question why is the default host called localhost? The implied
relationship to 127.0.0.1 was causing confusion. That got me thinking:
1. Is there a better name for the
On 15.07.2010 15:34, Konstantin Kolinko wrote:
2010/7/15 Mark Thomasma...@apache.org:
I'm teaching a Tomcat course today and tomorrow and one of the students
raised the question why is the default host called localhost? The implied
relationship to 127.0.0.1 was causing confusion. That got me
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Since the host name should be a valid dns name(ok it doesn't need to be
a valid dns name if Alias is used), choosing a default which doesn't
have a valid dns name may cause woes.
But if someone came up with a fantastic alternate default name, then I
could be swayed.
-Tim
On 7/15/2010
On 15/07/2010 15:16, Tim Funk wrote:
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Since the host name should be a valid dns name(ok it doesn't need to be
a valid dns name if Alias is used), choosing a default which doesn't
have a valid dns name may cause woes.
If it does need to be a valid dns name then localhost absolutely makes
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Mark Thomas ma...@apache.org wrote:
On 15/07/2010 15:16, Tim Funk wrote:
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Since the host name should be a valid dns name(ok it doesn't need to be
a valid dns name if Alias is used), choosing a default which doesn't
have a valid dns name may cause woes.
IIRC, there is no requirement. But from a mapping point of view, the
name used should match what the browser is sending in the Host: field.
Tomcat (iirc) doens't do any lookups based on the name field for Host so
from that point of view - life in DNS is OK.
But to access the tomcat server -
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Mark Thomas ma...@apache.org wrote:
I'm teaching a Tomcat course today and tomorrow and one of the students
raised the question why is the default host called localhost? The implied
relationship to 127.0.0.1 was causing confusion. That got me thinking:
1. Is
On 7/15/2010 9:44 PM, Yoav Shapira wrote:
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Mark Thomas ma...@apache.org wrote:
I'm teaching a Tomcat course today and tomorrow and one of the students
raised the question why is the default host called localhost? The implied
relationship to 127.0.0.1 was causing
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