RE: proxies rewriting URLs

Any digest that included the URI would be wrong if the URI is munged by 
the proxy. It would break Digest Authentication, for example.
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] From: Larry Masinter  <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
] To:  <"http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com">;
] <http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
] Subject: proxies rewriting URLs
] Date: Wednesday, March 06, 1996 11:52PM
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] Apologies if this is clear in the text, but it didn't seem to be when
] I scanned 1.1. Some older proxies seemed to be modifying URLs, e.g.,
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]     GET http://foo.com/test#frob HTTP/1.0
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] they might ask foo.com for
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]     GET /test%23frob HTTP/1.0
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] or vice versa. Is there any reason to disallow this, and if so, what
] language would be put in the spec to disallow it; alternatively, if
] proxies might do this kind of transformation, what should we say?
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Received on Friday, 8 March 1996 10:41:36 UTC