Re: OPTIONS issues from Koen
From: Scott Lawrence (lawrence@agranat.com)
Date: Tue, Mar 03 1998
Message-Id: <199803031831.NAA01887@devnix.agranat.com>
To: "Woodhouse, Gregory J." <gregory.woodhouse@med.va.gov>
cc: ietf-http-ext@w3.org
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 13:31:57 -0500
From: "Scott Lawrence" <lawrence@agranat.com>
Subject: Re: OPTIONS issues from Koen
>>>>> "GW" == "Woodhouse <Woodhouse> writes:
GW> My take on OPTIONS * is that it refers to the origin server. There
GW> probably should be some way to request options from an intermediate
GW> proxy.
OPTIONS * HTTP/1.1
Host: foo.bar.com
Max-Forwards: 0
where foo.bar.com is some origin server, but this request was sent
to a proxy - in this case, the first proxy in the chain should
respond to the OPTIONS method because Max-Forwards has been used
up. To get the options of a second proxy, send 'Max-Forwards: 1',
and so on.
GW> I am confused, however, about tunnels. Since a tunnel is a blind
GW> relay shouldn't it be irrelevant what the tunnel is or even if one is
GW> present?
Yes; the canonical example of a tunnel is a SOCKs portal - it does
not participate in the HTTP at all.
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Scott Lawrence EmWeb Embedded Server <lawrence@agranat.com>
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