Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 09/25/05 13:25

On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Toby Inkster wrote:

> Go to http://browsers.evolt.org/. That is an archive of many
> different browsers (with many different versions of most of them).
> It tells you the file size before you download it.

What I'm going to say here will only be of interest to those who
really want to try out historical browsers. The versions which I have
in mind are too old to be of genuine concern to anyone who is making
documents intended for the WWW and is only interested in compatibility
with the browsers in present use...

Just to note that older browsers/versions do not support name-based
virtual hosts (i.e do not send a Host: header with their requests).

There was an intermediate period, during which some browser versions
supported proxies, although they did not yet support name-based
virtual hosts. Such browsers can access name-based virtual hosts if
they're configured to use a proxy (of course, a suitable proxy needs
to be available - when I was doing this, I used our local squid proxy
cache server).

hope this helps anyone interested in browser archaeology :-)

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