Fr�d�ric L. W. Meunier wrote: > Hi. I tried to access an URL that "doesn't exist" (yes, I'm > curious) - http://cvs.seul.org/ - and received, among others, > the following message: > > "If you're using lynx, it might be your fault -- lynx has a > bad tendency to not respect virtual hosting directives." >
You received this message because the Host header you sent didn't match any of the virtual site names, so you received the main site home page. As others have said, that is independent of Lynx. On the web, there aren't any such things as virtual hosting directives; what Apache (the server they are using) virtual server directives do is map a Host header value to a directory; they may also support the pre-HTTP/1.1 method of using separate IP addresses on the same physical interface. Lynx was a very early adopter of Host headers, so any vaguely up to date (last four or five years) version of Lynx should work, unless there is a proxy in the way that doesn't support HTTP/1.1 in this respect. Lynx Version 2.8.3rel.1 (23 Apr 2000) definitely supports them. Note, while this site uses proper virtual hosting, a lot of domain name registration companies generate single frame framesets with the actual frame in free ISP web space. The URL on the address bar (which doesn't change) looks like the domain you have bought (and is all you can bookmkark!) but the actual pages are elsewhere. This will be ugly on Lynx. ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
