From: Ed Lui (edwlui@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Apr 01 2005 - 14:46:51 GMT-3
Yuki,
In short. It is called virtual hosting. Many different domain/url map
to a single ip address. The web server doesn't know what website you
are visiting by typing just the ip address.
HTH,
Edward
On Apr 1, 2005 9:06 AM, yuki hisano <yukyhisano@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry for the OT.
> I knew there is someone who can answer this here in this group.
>
> I am trying to figure out something I am not very familiar with.
>
> There is a web server that is accessible if you browse is through your web
> brouser by typing its URL as usual. But here I have a problem.
> I am trying to access this web server by typing its IP address that I pulled
> by nslookup and this server does not respond by this method as most of them
> do.
>
> Does anyone know why this happens??
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Yuki
>
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