Re: Fwd: draft-ietf-http-v11-spec-rev-04 comments

>>  * Section 5.1.2 "Request-URI", p33, second para talks about
>>    replacing 'a null abs_path with "*"' - surely it's replaced
>>    with a "/".
>
>I was about to say, vigorously, "no", but now I think I'm just confused
>about just what the point is of that paragraph.  The paragraph says:
>
>       Request-URI    = "*" | absoluteURI | abs_path
>[...]
>In requests that they forward, transparent proxies MUST NOT rewrite the
>"abs_path" part of a Request-URI in any way except as noted above to
>replace a null abs_path with "*", no matter what the proxy does in its
>internal implementation.

That is a leftover from when Max-Forwards was not allowed to be used
with an OPTIONS request.  That stuff should be removed.  Unfortunately,
I don't have time to make a diff to give better guidance about where
"that stuff" is precisely -- one more thing to do on the plane to Chicago.

....Roy