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Subject: Re: AWS combined dispatcher Virtual host and URI
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Le 20/04/2020 à 16:46, Dmitry A. Kazakov a écrit :
> You are using the HTTP header "Host", right? 
Yes, or more exactly, I access it through the AWS provided function

> 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.
Virtual hosts are several logical hosts served by the same physical
server. Therefore, by definition, there is no way to distinguish if the
user provides just the IP address.

But this is a red herring. If you give your visitor a URL that works,
and the visitor tries something else and it doesn't work, well... too
bad for him.


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