- From: Daniel DuBois <ddubois@rafiki.spyglass.com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 09:38:10 -0600
- To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
>Am I correct in my interpretation that if the user agent is sending the
>request directly to the origin server, then this header is required;
>when sending it not to the origin server, it can be omitted (presumably
>since the complete URL is given in the Request-URI)?
If a request goes through a 1.0 proxy, the old proxy cannot be expected to
create a Host: header that will eventually reach the origin server.
Therefore I would expect that the Host: header would be just as necessary
when making a request to a proxy.
Now that I've scrutinized this section of the spec, I'm actually quite
surprised the spec doesn't coincide with what I just said. Do I
misunderstand something?
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Received on Friday, 19 January 1996 07:43:58 UTC