Simon Willison • 1/23/2026

SSH has no Host header

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The article details the technical workings of exe.dev, a hosting service providing VMs accessible via SSH. It explains how the service routes SSH connections to the correct user VM despite lacking a Host header, using account-unique IP addresses and public key authentication for identification at the load balancer level.

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