On 02/09/2010 22:21, Mark Rages wrote:
>
> As of HTTP 1.1, part of the web browser's request is the full URL of
> the web page requested.
>
> The webserver can use the hostname in this URL to decide which page to
> serve.  This is called "virtual hosting".
>
> A single IP address can serve thousands of hostnames this way.  Or, as
> seems to be the case here, you can serve production and testing
> versions of a website depending on the hostname part of the URL.
>
> Regards,
> Mark
> markrages@gmail
Also

The URL may be at the destination a load balancing proxy. Some sites=20
will use then the PREVIOUS cookie to serve site content or even a=20
different server. Google has served DIFFERENT home pages from different=20
servers during test. We proved this by deletion of cookie.

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