On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 01:27:05AM +0200, Marcus.Zoller wrote: > Hmm... a redirect sends the Location: http://new-url... > header as reply and this will result in a new request from the user > and will change the URL displayed.
Not necessarily. If you open up a frame in which the redirect takes place you still see the old url with the contents of the new-url. Ramin > > In your case this will show http://33.44.55.66 instead of http://xyz.com > after the redirect was sent from 11.33.44.55.66. > > If this is what you were looking for, changin the DNS record is a better > solution. > > If you want to hide your two machines behind one address for multiple virtual > domains, you can't do this with sending back a redirect to the user. > > Assume xyz.com, abc.com is hosted on a NT (the 22...) box and foo.com and > bar.com is hosted on a Linux box (33...) and you want a common DNS setup for > all those domains. In this case all four domains have the 11... address. > > If the user requests xyz.com and the apache for the 11. redirects to 22., > how does the NT box decide if it is xyz.com or abc.com without having > the domain within the URL string? > > Maybe I forgot or misunderstand something here but I don't know about some kind > of HTTP redirect that will keep the request string and just let the useragent > connect to a new address for the same url requested? > > > -- > Marcus >
