Re: Make OTConnect() to use domain name instead of IP ?
Re: Make OTConnect() to use domain name instead of IP ?
- Subject: Re: Make OTConnect() to use domain name instead of IP ?
- From: "Frederick Cheung" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 08:43:42 +0000
On 2/22/06, email@hidden <email@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It seems OTConnect() is first converting any given domain name to an IP
> address and then making the connection using the IP address.
>
> E.g. connecting to my own website using the OTSimpleDownloadHTTP example I
> get an error message from my provider telling me I shouldn't use the raw
> IP address but the domain name.
>
> What would be the best way to tell OT using the domain name and not to
> attempt any DNS lookups on its own ?!
>
OTConnect has to do a dns lookup or else it wouldn't know what to
connect to. What you provider probably means is that you need to
include a Host header. The format of this header is dead simple, if
your webserver is www.example.com then your header should be
Host: www.example.com
This is needed because most providers will be hosting many websites
(with different domain names) off a single server, so all those domain
names map to the same ip address and so the webserver needs to be able
to tell which one you want.
Fred
> Sorry, still stuck with OT since I need to support both, OS 9 and X.
>
> regards,
> Jan
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