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Thanks to virtual hosting (which is extremely common) host resolution is actively harmful to URL comparison.

• jefftk 7y ago
  > Thanks to virtual hosting (which is extremely common) It's extremely common now, but it wasn't possible yet when they made this design decision.
• pdw 7y ago
  I'm pretty sure the specification of this class predates name-based virtual hosting. After all, that only appeared in 1997, or perhaps late 1996, and it took a couple of years to be standardized. The URL class existed in Java in 1995 :) (Edit: And really, virtual hosts are an extremely weird HTTP feature. What other internet protocol cares about what domain name you used to establish a connection?)
  • merb 7y ago
    > (Edit: And really, virtual hosts are an extremely weird HTTP feature. What other internet protocol cares about what domain name you used to establish a connection?) kerberos? (btw. this is older than 1995) or smtp (little bit different than the http version, tough)