Thanks for the clarification guys.  Followup question though.  Does that 
imply that there is no reliable way to use Virtual Hosting for HTTP/1.0 
clients (although probably pretty much non-existant these days)?

Thanks,

Eric


"Jacques Caron" <[email protected]> wrote in 
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> At 12:56 21/10/2009, Joe Gooch wrote:
>>Also note that the Host header is optional....  Browsers put it in but
>>requests could come through without a host header. ( which is why
>>apache has directives that work with namevirtualhosts to handle the
>>"default" case)
>
> Host: is mandatory in HTTP/1.1. But in HTTP/1.0 there might be cases where 
> no Host: header is sent (the Host: header did not exist in the HTTP/1.0 
> spec, but that was more than 10 years ago), and obviously nothing prevents 
> someone from sending a non-conforming request.
>
> Jacques.
>
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