URLs, IPs and interception

[Ian Batten]

On 1 Mar 2008, at 22:08, Roland Perry wrote:
>
> But you can't always access a website purely by IP address.

And haven't been able to since the introduction of name-based virtual  
hosting, made possible by HTTP 1.1.  I presume that in these days of  
IP numbers being a shortage resource (Between 1992 and 1995 GBnet gave  
us 12 Class C IP numbers on the back of a 256K connection; last month  
COLT gave me a /27 (32 addresses) on the strength of a pair of 10Mbps  
connections) name-based virtual hosting is becoming more and more  
common.

ian