- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 13:11:06 -0800
- To: Erik Wilde <dret@berkeley.edu>
- Cc: "uri@w3.org" <uri@w3.org>
On Jan 6, 2010, at 10:30 AM, Erik Wilde wrote: > i have a technical question about HTTP and URIs. my use case is that i am considering to use HTTP for the resolution of non-HTTP URIs, so that for example (this is my use case) a geo:37.0625,-95.677068 URI could be "resolved" via HTTP. regardless of the actual process (what "resolution" returns in the response), i am currently just trying to find out whether it would be legal to send a HTTP request like this: > > GET geo:37.0625,-95.677068 HTTP/1.1 Yes, that is a normal proxy request, assuming the proxy has been configured to resolve geo addresses. What would the response be? Host is only required when the URI contains an authority component. ....Roy
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