- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 11:09:12 -0800
- To: Dave Kristol <dmk@allegra.att.com>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
> I've noticed a cumbersome locution spreading through the HTTP/1.1
> draft that I would like to cut off. Here's an example:
>
> ... and the Host request header (present if the request-URI is not
> an absoluteURI) ...
Argh, where did that come from? The Host header is ALWAYS present in
HTTP/1.1. It is never removed, not even when the full-URI is present.
It will not be removed until HTTP/2.0, which is a different specification.
...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 Tuesday, 2 April 1996 11:39:34 UTC