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Tag: routing

Virtual hosts

Every HTTP backend serves on virtual hosts: the names clients put in the URL. One vhost carries several backends at once — a calendar, an address book, a file share and a website on `jens.dev`, for ex

Routing and content negotiation

How a Markdown-mode site turns a request path into content, and how the same page can answer with either HTML or its Markdown source. These are answered before any file lookup: | URL | Response | |---

2026-09-27 site routing markdown http

Frontends

Frontends are the transport entrypoints. They accept client connections, perform protocol-specific work such as authentication or host-based routing, and hand off domain operations to backend instance