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Comment by alibarber

4 days ago

That’s sort of what HTTP is already doing though no?

Multiple websites can have the exact same DNS record and live on the same physical server / IP address, but the HTTP(S) request must specify what host name it is actually requesting, so the server knows how to serve it.

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