- From: Alex Hopmann <hopmann@holonet.net>
- Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 15:03:27 -0700
- To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com, dtb@nid.com
David Blustein writes: >HTTP clients could send the complete URL request with the request >data (i.e., include the FQDN used in forming the oringinal URL). David, This is a topic that has been debated recently. From one point of view your solution is the most elegant. As a matter of fact my HTTP server software recognizes URLs in the form HTTP:// and realizes that they are full URL's. Its really not that hard. However because the signifigant installed base of servers do not support this, noone is going to use the above in their client unless they have hardwired their client for their server (Or eventually we have some better mechanisms). In any case, a) Lets get this right in HTTP-NG. b) I really don't see any harm in encouraging server vendors to start supporting full URL's. It IS possible that we might be able to support this in some way. On the other hand of course we will still wind up having yet another header field like "host:" or whatever else you prefer in particular. Alex Hopmann ResNova Software, Inc. hopmann@holonet.net
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