- From: Brian Behlendorf <brian@organic.com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 17:04:47 -0800 (PST)
- To: Daniel DuBois <ddubois@rafiki.spyglass.com>
- Cc: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
On Fri, 19 Jan 1996, Daniel DuBois wrote: > >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? Hmm - the only discrepency I can see is maybe someone wants to run *virtual*proxies* for control reasons (proxy1.domain.com & proxy2.domain.com are one the same machine, so the Host: is either proxy1 or proxy2) but I would consider having the header work through 1.0 proxies to have a higher value. Brian --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-- brian@organic.com brian@hyperreal.com http://www.[hyperreal,organic].com/
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