guideline for name-based web hosting justification

Mike Horwath drechsau at geeks.org
Wed Sep 13 11:37:25 EDT 2000


On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 08:50:05AM -0600, Alec H. Peterson wrote:
> Mury wrote:
> > Cool!  Now we all know how to do name based hosting... er, wait... what
> > about all those HTTP/1.0 browsers!?  You don't think they exist any
> > more?  Check this out.  In fairness I sampled all my virtual hosts off of
> > one server from a selective time period.  All my logs files are in the
> > www.domain.com format.  Here are my commands and results:
> > 
> > webserver3: {17} % grep 'HTTP/1.1' www.*.com | wc -l
> >   400441
> > webserver3: {18} % grep 'HTTP/1.0' www.*.com | wc -l
> >   375412
> > 
> > 48.4% of the browsers out there that accessed my customers' sites used
> > HTTP/1.0.  For the uninitiated the 1.0 version of the HTTP protocol does
> > NOT support name based hosting.
> 
> That's the first number I've seen on the subject that is greater that 2%,
> and I will confess it does concern me a great deal.
> 
> Does anybody else have any numbers they'd like to share?

% gzcat * | wc
13133659 236790086 2910981757
% gzcat * | grep -c "HTTP/1.0"
6478695

or 49.32%

This is one set of logs from one machine in our cluster for one month.

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