On Monday, hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
] > I think this problem has to do with the newer HTTP 1.1 protocol.
HTTP 1.1 saves heap and heaps of IP addresses. Now thousands of
"servers" can be addressed to one IP address. eg
http://hoody.virtualave.net/ is really on the server called
s3.virtualave.net.
] Indeed - and that's a problem: HTTP 1.1 allows for certain new "META"
] tags which however, are not defined in HTML (yet - and not even in the
] "transitional" HTML_4); and it's only 'certain' browsers which can make
] use of these,
Arachne and Lynx both support it. The <META HTTP-EQUIV="..."> tag is
an easy way to include extra "things" in the "headers" of the
document. eg The old fashioned way to redirect was to put
Refresh: 1;URL=http://whatever
in the header of the packet. Now you can put it in the HTML file.
] It is, in my opinion, sheer bandwidth waste: allows to load useless
] "graphical" screenfillups - I saw cases of 8 to nearly 30 KB - in order
] *only* to get the next, perphaps and maybe "real" URL (not necessarily
] the latter; crap can be nested ad infinitum).
Indeed, when using it there should only be something like "We are
redirecting you" instead of all that crap.
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