- From: Brian Behlendorf <brian@wired.com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 11:54:44 -0800 (PST)
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
On Mon, 13 Feb 1995, Roy T. Fielding wrote: > So, which one should we include in the 1.1 specification: > > Host: foo.bar.com > > or > > Orig-URI: http//foo.bar.com:8001/home/is/where/the/wallet/is.html Host:, as it's the only unique part of the request, and we should definitely try to keep the amount of stuff in the request headers down. > Also, should it be: > > a) recommended for all requests > b) recommended only for requests to standard URLs like / and /site.idx It should be recommended for all requests - otherwise collections of HTML pages will be nowhere nearly as portable. However, one way to reduce the number of times it has to stick Host: into the headers would be to do a reverse-lookup of the IP number associated with that Host, and if it returned the same hostname, then that must be the canonical hostname for that IP number and thus no Host: header is needed (presuming providers don't do something stupid like have multiple reverse DNS tables for the same IP numbers :) Just a thought. Brian --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-- brian@hotwired.com brian@hyperreal.com http://www.hotwired.com/Staff/brian/
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