ietf-nntp Virtual hosts in NNTP servers

[Rob Siemborski]

On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Joao Prado Maia wrote:

> Most of you guys probably know about the 'Host' header that gets sent from
> HTTP 1.1 compliant browsers, which allows web servers to serve pages for
> different domains while binding to the same port in the same IP address.
>
> Could the same thing be implemented for NNTP ? Can anyone provide feedback
> about pros and cons about this idea ?

Presumably SASL realm information could be used for this purpose.

-Rob

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