- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 17:05:09 -0700
- To: Dave Kristol <dmk@allegra.att.com>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
> Okay, I'll accept your arguments. However, there is still a piece I feel > is missing: > > 1) We want clients to send, and servers to accept, an absoluteURI. No, we only want servers to accept an absoluteURI. Clients can't send it until 2.0. > 2) Eventually we want to obviate the need for Host:. Not in 1.x. The stuff added to the third block of text in section 5.1.2 is wrong -- it needs to be removed. > 3) The purpose of absoluteURI and/or Host is to specify the virtual host > for (at least) an http_URL. That is only one of many things that absoluteURI is used for in the specification. In fact, it is probably the least important of them. > The reason I've been trying to restrict the absoluteURI syntax is that > then it becomes easy to identify the virtual host. I believe somewhere > in the spec. there should be an explanation of how to identify the > virtual host of "the resource identified by the request". I believe Koen asked for such a section of text to be added to the section on Requests. However, that must not change the protocol syntax. (and it ain't gunna write itself) ......Roy
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