[Catalyst-dev] subdomain hook for Catalyst::Test

[Ashley]

On Oct 8, 2008, at 10:06 AM, Jason Gottshall wrote:
>> Just throwing this out there: "domain" is probably the wrong  
>> technical nomenclature for this however it ends up being done.  
>> URI.pm and friends use "host" and I argue for toeing that line.
>
> Excellent. I've been wondering about that myself. I'll accept the  
> idea of going with "host" (and "default_host" as the package var)  
> for fully-qualified "white-label" values
>
> Now, how do you feel about that which I've been calling  
> "subdomain"? That is, one or more of the left-most domain/host name  
> elements, to be added to whatever the standing host is at the time:  
> 'localhost' for local requests, or the hostname component of $ENV 
> {CATALYST_SERVER}, or even the newly minted "host" value noted  
> above. I think I pulled the term from a DNS-related RFC, but that  
> means nothing. I'm open to suggestions.

I think subdomains are only conceptually related to their domains (or  
as a matter of dispatch convenience). Each is really either its own  
host or some kind of dispatch alias like www v "" tends to be. So  
there shouldn't be a reason to include anything "less than" host.  
Someone feel free to club me like a baby seal if I'm talking crazy.

-Ashley