- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 22:28:29 -0800
- To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
> While the configuration of proxies does not really belong in the
> HTTP protocol, it helps a lot having a way to detect the existence
> of loops, or at least minimising its bad effects.
The Forwarded header field was created for this purpose.
Is it insufficient?
...Roy T. Fielding
Department of Information & Computer Science (fielding@ics.uci.edu)
University of California, Irvine, CA 92717-3425 fax:+1(714)824-4056
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/
Received on Friday, 24 November 1995 23:10:50 UTC