Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact commons-httpclient-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list commons-httpclient-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 27666 invoked by uid 98); 27 Jan 2003 13:37:04 -0000 X-Antivirus: nagoya (v4218 created Aug 14 2002) Received: (qmail 27647 invoked from network); 27 Jan 2003 13:37:02 -0000 Received: from daedalus.apache.org (HELO apache.org) (208.185.179.12) by nagoya.betaversion.org with SMTP; 27 Jan 2003 13:37:02 -0000 Received: (qmail 3154 invoked by uid 500); 27 Jan 2003 13:35:36 -0000 Received: (qmail 3144 invoked from network); 27 Jan 2003 13:35:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nose.ch) (195.134.131.71) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 27 Jan 2003 13:35:36 -0000 Received: (qmail 29142 invoked from network); 27 Jan 2003 14:35:35 -0000 Received: from calvin.nose.ch (HELO nose.ch) (192.168.1.7) by 0 with SMTP; 27 Jan 2003 14:35:35 -0000 Message-ID: <3E3535A7.3080206@nose.ch> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 14:35:35 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ortwin_Gl=FCck?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: de-ch, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Commons HttpClient Project Subject: Re: Configurable DNS resolver? References: <77C753C5-31FB-11D7-813F-00306557E112@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <77C753C5-31FB-11D7-813F-00306557E112@u.washington.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Michael Becke wrote: > If you set the host of a method or HttpClient to an IP address then it > will connect to that address. DNS names are not required, but will be > resolved using the default Java method if used. > > Mike This causes problems on Multi-Homed sites. A DNS name is required in the HTTP request (Host request header) to uniquely reference the site.