Re: Does HTTP allow this?

2003-11-10 Thread Daniel Stenberg
On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: One thing that might break (but that Wget doesn't yet support anyway) is NTLM, which seems to authorize the *connections* individual connections. Yes it does. It certainly makes things more complicated, as you would have to exclude such a connection

Re: Does HTTP allow this?

2003-11-10 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Daniel Stenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes it does. It certainly makes things more complicated, as you would have to exclude such a connection from the checks (at least I think you want that, I don't think you'll be forced to do so). And you also need to exclude HTTPS-connections from this

Re: Does HTTP allow this?

2003-11-10 Thread Daniel Stenberg
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: I'm already treating SSL and non-SSL connections as incompatible. But I'm curious as to why you say name-based virtual hosting isn't possible over SSL? To quote the Apache docs: Name-based virtual hosting cannot be used with SSL secure servers

Re: Does HTTP allow this?

2003-11-10 Thread Tony Lewis
Hrvoje Niksic wrote: Assume that Wget has retrieved a document from the host A, which hasn't closed the connection in accordance with Wget's keep-alive request. Then Wget needs to connect to host B, which is really the same as A because the provider uses DNS-based virtual hosts. Is it OK

Re: Does HTTP allow this?

2003-11-10 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Tony Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's possible that the server responding to the IP address forwards connections to multiple backend servers. These backend servers may or may not know about all the resources that the gateway server know about. That is precisely the case I'm worried

Re: Does HTTP allow this?

2003-11-10 Thread Tony Lewis
Hrvoje Niksic wrote: The thing is, I don't want to bloat Wget with obscure options to turn off even more obscure (and *very* rarely needed) optimizations. Wget has enough command-line options as it is. If there are cases where the optimization doesn't work, I'd rather omit it completely.

Re: Does HTTP allow this?

2003-11-10 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Tony Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hrvoje Niksic wrote: The thing is, I don't want to bloat Wget with obscure options to turn off even more obscure (and *very* rarely needed) optimizations. Wget has enough command-line options as it is. If there are cases where the optimization doesn't

Re: Does HTTP allow this?

2003-11-09 Thread Daniel Stenberg
On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: So if I have the connection to the endpoint, I should be able to reuse it. But on the other hand, a server might decide to connect a file descriptor to a handler for a specific virtual host, which would be unable to serve anything else. FWIW, it works

Re: Does HTTP allow this?

2003-11-09 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Daniel Stenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: So if I have the connection to the endpoint, I should be able to reuse it. But on the other hand, a server might decide to connect a file descriptor to a handler for a specific virtual host, which would be