Re: About that Host: header....

>    #2 (Full URL) may give server admins a real incentive to 
> switch over quickly--the impulse to jealously guard bandwidth 
> can be powerful. 
> 
>    I may have to run a 1.0 and 1.1 server simultaneously on separate 
> IP addresses for a while, but I don't think it would take long to 
> switch over with that kind of incentive. 

Please be realistic -- full HTTP/1.1 support in a server can't be done
overnight -- and the spec is much less tolerant about non-fully
compliant servers this time.  Hence -- you won't necessarily have your
favorite HTTP/1.1 server available the moment there is a HTTP/1.1
client around, and you have bug reports flowing in because your server
is 'broken' for the new 1.1 client.

In any case -- whether the host is in the URL or the Host: header is a
mere matter of taste.  One of them breaks things, the other doesn't --
so which one do we pick?

Cheers,
--
Ari Luotonen				ari@netscape.com
Netscape Communications Corp.		http://home.netscape.com/people/ari/
685 East Middlefield Road
Mountain View, CA 94043, USA		Netscape Server Development Team

Received on Monday, 18 March 1996 22:43:09 UTC