- From: Scott Lawrence <lawrence@agranat.com>
- Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 13:31:57 -0500
- To: "Woodhouse, Gregory J." <gregory.woodhouse@med.va.gov>
- cc: ietf-http-ext@w3.org
>>>>> "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. -- Scott Lawrence EmWeb Embedded Server <lawrence@agranat.com> Agranat Systems, Inc. Engineering http://www.agranat.com/
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