On 02/09/2010 23:01, Michael Watterson wrote:
>    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
> will use then the PREVIOUS cookie to serve site content or even a
> different server. Google has served DIFFERENT home pages from different
> servers during test. We proved this by deletion of cookie.
>
We got puzzled because two of us side by side on same public IP to same=20
URL getting DIFFERENT Google home page at same time. (they testing a new=20
design). No amount of fiddling with different URLs or preferences would=20
change it, only cookie blocking restored the then ordinary Google.
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