On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Binand Raj S. wrote: Wow,cool. > On Tuesday 09 April 2002 12:09 pm, abrar hazarika wrote: > > but how does the dns works in this case > > when the browser sends requests for resolving the > > domain name i typed , it gets the ip address, and then > > it should automatically go to the M$ page instead of > > our domain. > > Virtual domains are identified by the HTTP Host: header. > > So, let us say foo.com and bar.com are hosted on the same IP. > You open browser and type foo.com. The browser connects to the > IP, and sends the following: > > GET / HTTP/1.1 > Host: foo.com > > And the server knows this guy needs the foo.com page. When you type > bar.com, the browser connects to the same IP, but sends: > > GET / HTTP/1.1 > Host: bar.com > > Depending on the Host: header, the server decides on the DocumentRoot > and DirectoryIndex (apache directives :-), and serves that page. > > Binand > > _______________________________________________ > linux-india-help mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help >
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