From: Peter H. Coffin (hellsop_at_ninehells.com)
Date: Sun Jun 27 2004 - 21:28:50 PDT
On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 12:17:00AM +0200, Frank Gruendel wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> does anybody have an idea why NetHopper 3.0.1 can't open this
> page?
>
> http://www.pda-soft.de/textonly.html
>
> I admit I wrote it with NotePad, but it is about the smallest
> and simplest html page one could write? All NetHopper gives me is
> a 404 error.
NetHopper can't cope with name-based virtual domains well. I don't
recall the details quite as well as I should[1], but the gist of it is
that NetHopper doesn't send the name of the server it's requesting the
page from, only the path of the page itself. When the webserver gets
this, it doesn't have any choice but to go look in the directory tree
for the REAL base of the HTML Documents directory, instead of whatever
the base is for the intended virtual domain. So, the webserver thinks
NetHopper is asking for http://kundenserver.de/textonly.html instead of
http://www.pda-soft.de/textonly.html, and that's what doesn't exist.
[1] For example, I *think* this is an HTTP 1.1 extension, and NetHopper
doesn't speak that, which is the actual problem.
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