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authorEric Covener <covener@apache.org>2020-12-18 15:22:54 +0100
committerEric Covener <covener@apache.org>2020-12-18 15:22:54 +0100
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PR64996: avoid "best" unqualified
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@@ -54,8 +54,9 @@
applicable to a general-purpose web server.</p>
<p> Name-based virtual hosting builds off of the IP-based virtual host
- selection algorithm, meaning that searches for the proper server name
- occur only between virtual hosts that have the best IP-based address.</p>
+ selection algorithm, meaning that comparisons of ther requested hostname
+ to configured hostnames occurs only within the set of virtual hosts that
+ share the most specific IP:PORT based match at the network layer.</p>
</section>
@@ -64,7 +65,7 @@
<p>It is important to recognize that the first step in name-based virtual
host resolution is IP-based resolution. Name-based virtual host
resolution only chooses the most appropriate name-based virtual host
- after narrowing down the candidates to the best IP-based match. Using a wildcard (*)
+ after narrowing down the candidates to the best (most specific) IP-based match. Using a wildcard (*)
for the IP address in all of the VirtualHost directives makes this
IP-based mapping irrelevant.</p>