- From: Chuck Shotton <cshotton@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 09:33:38 -0600
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU>, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
At 5:55 AM 2/13/95, Roy T. Fielding wrote: >Well, after reading all the comments, I have come to the following >conclusions: > > 1) Too many web developers work on the weekends; Agree. (unfortunately) > 2) Marketing has too much influence on web technology; and, Agree! > 3) There's not much I can do about either one. Disagree! You're working very hard to put together a good standard. If it meets the needs of developers and users and gets accepted in a timely fashion, this will have much more influence on the WWW than rogue commercial development organizations. >So, which one should we include in the 1.1 specification: > > Host: foo.bar.com As you mentioned earlier, this is all that is *required*, since everything else should be in the URL as received. It is certainly is easier to implement because no parsing is required to extract this info. > Orig-URI: http//foo.bar.com:8001/home/is/where/the/wallet/is.html On the other hand, this format is a little more work to parse, but contains valuable information that is often lost or munged when data passes through proxies, etc. Looking at just long-term usefulness, this version seems to have a greater chance at being able to support multiple, unforeseen uses. (it certainly makes implementing proxy servers easier...) >Also, should it be: > > a) recommended for all requests Yes! > b) recommended only for requests to standard URLs like / and /site.idx No! >I am assuming that it will not be recommended for requests that already >use the full URI, and that will remain the goal for 2.0. Why not be consistent? Proxies can still munge a full URI as easily as they can mangle a current version. Might as well maintain it unscathed in the header field where the real server can grab it. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Shotton cshotton@biap.com http://www.biap.com/ cshotton@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu "I am NOT here."
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