[TriLUG] Apache and Virtual Hosts help

[Tarus Balog]

Gang:

We're working on a new HTTP poller for OpenNMS that does things like  
handle virtual domains, user agents, etc. Just wanted to know if  
anyone could shed light on the following behavior.

If I

telnet opennms.org 80

and send the following strings:

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: zztop.canes.com
Connection: Close

I get a 302 Found response. The Host is just made up, so I would  
expect a 400 or 500 level error.

If I do the same for another server:

telnet internal.opennms.com 80

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: zztop.canes.com
Connection: Close

I get a 200 response with the default page.

Since I get different responses, I assume that I have configured  
apache differently on each server. My questions:

1) What *should* be the response? Is there an RFC or standard that  
dictates it?

2) How would I configure it for a 404, etc.

-T
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