On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 12:19:13PM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> >From a quick look at the ftpd (lukemftpd) manual page, it appears that it
> supports virtual services by running different ftpd on different IPs.
> 
> Does anyone have any patches for the NetBSD ftpd to support virtual hosts
> with only one IP?

How does the client tell the server which virtual service to use?

With HTTP/1.1, multiple virtual services on the one IP address are
supported by the client sending a `Host: ......' line after the GET
(etc) operation, and before the blank line.

To my knowledge, there's no standard in FTP for this.



> I know (and have used) other ftp servers that do support this (such as
> wu-ftpd, proftpd), but I am interested in using (and suggesting use of)
> lukemftpd.
> 
> Does ftp offer a "HOST" type command to tell the server what virtual host
> to use? (I guess I should look at the RFCs.)
> 
>    Jeremy C. Reed
>    http://www.reedmedia.net/

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