The "host header" is a required part of ANY http request. A typical HTTP request might start like this:
GET /ws/ProcessSoapReq.cfm HTTP/1.1 Content-Type: text/html Referer: *some refer address Content-Length: 779 User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows.NT.5.0) Host: www.mydomain.com Connection: Keep-Alive Pragma: no-cache .... This is what is passed to the "listening port" on the server. the "host:" key is required. It can contain an IP or a fully qualified domain name. When you set up a host header filter on an IIS machine, you can put multiple web sites on a single IP because IIS sends the HTTP request to the correctly defined virtual "site" based on what is in the "HOST" key. Further, the web server uses the request type key (the first one) to determine what script or folder or mapping within that "site" should respond to the request. -mk -----Original Message----- From: Douglas Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 2:39 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Pointing multiple sites to the same IP I have heard that you can point several different sites to one IP using http headers, what exactly does the header need in order to do this? Douglas Brown Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
