[Sigia-l] Re: Sub-domain usage

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On 6/8/06, ZO <listera at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Hopefully we are talking about the same thing, but a browser request to a
> server, service, app, etc can be made to look like anything before it

Too true.

> reaches that destination and the URL string can be rewritten to appear as
> pretty much anything back to the browser, meaning you can virtualize any
> real or fake hierarchical/file system, including directories. About four

Yep, I do that on my blog, in fact.

> years ago I designed an architecture whereby 3/4 of it was served via SSL
> and, depending on what was going on, parts of the entire site came in and
> out of that SSL umbrella. I didn't code it so, sorry, I don't know for a
> fact how it was done.

Gotcha, I still bet the SSL was assigned to a particular "real"
directory and not a virtual one (based on what you have to fill out to
create one), but I may be off on that. I will check with my Sys Admin.
If it can be done as you're suggesting, that opens a slew of
possibilities with mod_rewrites. Nice!

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