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Re: git daemon directory munging?

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HAH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date
Jun 4, 2006, 23:10 UTC
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Adding host like HTTP does with Host: header makes sense but I
> think the accept side can usually tell what the port it accepted
> the connection to is.
>

Yes, but that requires that each hostname has a separate IP address and/or port number (and SRV records in DNS, which not all platforms pay attention to.)

Now, if the hostname is passed in like this, it needs to be carefully canonicalized, and there needs to be provisions for wildcard matches.

	-hpa
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