- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 08:57:19 +0000
- To: SM <sm@resistor.net>
- cc: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
In message <6.2.5.6.2.20120108233351.09fd21f8@elandnews.com>, SM writes: > From what I understand, the updated version of Section 3.2.2 in RFC >2616 is currently Section 2.7.1 of >draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging-18. From RFC 2616: > > "The use of IP addresses in URLs SHOULD be avoided whenever > possible (see RFC 1900 [24])." > >And in draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging-18: > > "If the host identifier is provided as an IP literal or IPv4 address, > then the origin server is any listener on the indicated TCP port at > that IP address." > >Was the requirement to avoid IP addresses dropped? Isn't this simply pointing out that there usually are multiple domains served by a single HTTP server ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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