* Anh Tu Vu sez:
: telnet to port 80 of a site and use GET / HTTP/1.0 , i get a different web
: page from using IE to get to that site. Did the site use a proxy server to
: analyze HTTP header and return a page upon the header ? Which
: NAT/Proxy/Firewall scheme was probably used ?
None. The evil deception scheme you stumbled upon is HTTPs 'virtual
domains' or 'named domains' feature. In addition to a GET request, the
server expects you to send a 'Host: <host>' header, specifying which
domain name to get from this IP. Virtual hosting addresses the felt IP
address shortage large domain hosters suffer from.
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