At 10:11 PM 3/19/96 -0500, John C Klensin wrote: >requirement. Even if we "require" that servers return an error message, it >just pushes the problem a bit further out. We will find, I'm afraid >inevitably, that some idiot will decide to not bother sending "host" in the >interest of a few extra cycles of efficiency and that other idiots will make >the server error message a configurable option, also in the interest of >efficiency. Extrapolation from the history of the Internet predicts to a >lot of such idiots. Those same idiots would enable 200 OK responses to HTTP/1.1 requests that don't have the full URL in the request line and use the 1.0 partial URL style, or they'd make the error response a configurable option. So it's a moot point. I think Host: will be just fine. ----- the Programmer formerly known as Dan http://www.spyglass.com/~ddubois/Received on Wednesday, 20 March 1996 07:48:23 UTC
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