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[nycphp-talk] $_server['server_name'] versus $_server[http-host']

Chris Shiflett shiflett at php.net
Thu Mar 16 15:08:16 EST 2006


Cliff Hirsch wrote:
> Aren't these the same thing?

There's more to this than meets the eye, so I decided to blog about it:

http://shiflett.org/archive/211

The short answer is that HTTP_HOST is the Host header from the HTTP 
request, and SERVER_NAME is provided by the server but can be affected 
by the Host header in certain circumstances.

Hope that helps.

Chris



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