Re: Origin vs Authority; use of HTTPS (draft-nottingham-site-meta-01)

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Eran Hammer-Lahav <eran@hueniverse.com> wrote:
> You got this backwards.

Ah.  Thanks for this response.  I understand the situation much better now.

Let me see if I understand this correctly for the case of the https scheme.

1. You want to find out more about example.com on port 443 speaking
HTTP-over-TLS.
2. You want to find out more about https://example.com/resource/1 (and
care about the HTTP-over-TLS representation).

In both cases, you will do (wrapped in a TLS session):

GET /host-meta HTTP/1.1
Host: example.com:443

Your point is that a Web browser would never want to find out more
about https://example.com/resource/1 and care about the HTTP
representation (it would always be interested in the HTTP-over-TLS
representation).

Thanks,
Adam