Problem with name based shared hosting

[longrunner]

With the name based shared hosting, there is one problem, they will not work with browsers that do not send the hostname as part of requests.

[lunar]

Well, this is true only for older HTTP/1.0 browsers that have not retrofitted the host field feature from the HTTP/1.1 protocol. (The "Host" header that distinguishes between various DNS names sharing a single IP address was optional in HTTP/1.0; it is mandatory in HTTP/1.1, issued in 1999 as RFC 2616)