- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 11:23:29 +0100
- To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- CC: "ietf-http-wg@w3.org" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On 2013-01-30 11:07, Julian Reschke wrote: > On 2013-01-30 10:10, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> >> Both RFC2616 and the current -bis draft, have text to this effect: >> >> To allow for transition to the absolute-form for all requests in some >> future version of HTTP, HTTP/1.1 servers MUST accept the absolute- >> form in requests, even though HTTP/1.1 clients will only send them in >> requests to proxies. >> >> Are we going to do that in HTTP/2.0, get rid of the Host: header and >> mandate absolute form URIs ? >> ... > > Of course we do. It's in 1.1 just to make the transition from 1.0 > simpler. With a completely new header encoding, this issue will go away. > > Best regards, Julian Let me rephrase that... What we should get rid of is the approach of separating the host information into a regular header field. It needs to be placed either into the request-URI, or next to it. Best regards, Julian
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