Re: AWS combined dispatcher Virtual host and URI

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On 2020-04-20 15:20, J-P. Rosen wrote:
> Le 20/04/2020 à 13:25, Dmitry A. Kazakov a écrit :
>>> I don't want to see Virtual hosts as aliases, but as distinct
>>> different hosts: "http://personal_domain/gallery" and
>>> "http://company_domain/gallery" should serve two different galleries.
>>
>> You mean you want to add the domain name to the map's key "gallery" in
>> order to distinguish different contents? How this is supposed to work if
>> both domain names are resolved to the same IP address and the client
>> uses the address?
> 
> I've done that for a long time. If you query, you'll see that adalog.fr,
> www.adalog.fr, adenothe.org all refer to the same IP address...
> 
> I have a real root directory (configured in the server config file),
> with subdirectories named like the root URL of each virtual host. Here
> is how I compute the root directory for each virtual host:
> 
>   Hostname  : constant String  := Status.Host (Request);
>   K         : constant Natural := Index (Hostname, ":", Backward);
>   Host_Root : constant String  := WWW_Root
>                                    (Server.Config
>                                     (Server.Get_Current.all))
>                                       & (if K = 0
>                                          then Hostname
>                                          else Hostname (1 .. K-1));

You are using the HTTP header "Host", right? But if the URI deploys the 
IP address like:

    http://192.168.1.1/gallery

The host header is meant to serve as an alias, but there is no guarantee 
it would work, only if the client cooperates.

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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de