* Patrick W. Gilmore: >> I'm not so sure. Name-based virtual hosting for plain HTTP was >> introduced when Windows NT 4.0 was still in wide use. It originally >> came with Internet Explorer 2.0, which did not send the Host: header >> in HTTP requests. > > NT4 was never heavily adopted by users.
It was fairly popular on corporate desktops, until 2005 or so. You really don't want to know details. > Also, not nearly as many billions were being sold on e-commerce > sites. We're talking pretty much recent history here, closer to 2005 than to 2000. Here are some statistics from a popular IT web site in Germany, from mid-2006: <http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Mozilla-Firefox-gewinnt-wieder-Marktanteile-140479.html> They report a 2.5% market share. Of course, these clients weren't running Internet Explorer 2.0 anymore, and this offers a clue what will happen if SNI is a desirable feature in browsers. 8-)
