"Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-...@yahoo.com.ar> writes: > En Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:15:48 -0300, Jean-Michel Pichavant > <jeanmic...@sequans.com> escribió: > >> I'm puzzled. >> Unless my english is failing me, everything would be solved using >> hostnames if I follow you. Why don't you do that ? >> I am no network/IP guru, but it sounds very weird to have requests >> rejected when using IP addresses. Are you sure your host names are >> resolved with the same IPM address you are using ? > > HTTP 1.1 requires a Host: header field; this way, multiple web > servers may share the same IP address. So you can't identify a host > by its IP alone; the host name is required. This was devised in > order to save IPv4 addresses; LACNIC (the Latin America addresses > register) does not assign addresses to ISP's based solely on web > hosting anymore - they MUST share existing IPs. And I think a > similar policy is used on other regions.
If you really want to go for speed you should be able to set the Host: header to the name but use the IP address to make the connection. Something else that might be slowing you down is anti-spyware or anti-virus. Several products put a long list of blacklist sites in the hosts file. Windows can be rather slow to process that file. -- Pete Forman -./\.- West Sussex, UK -./\.- http://petef.22web.net -./\.- petef4+use...@gmail.com -./\.- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
