- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@kiwi.ics.uci.edu>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 14:47:16 -0700
- To: Dave Kristol <dmk@bell-labs.com>
- Cc: Jim Gettys <jg@pa.dec.com>, http-wg@hplb.hpl.hp.com
>> * Section 5.1.2 "Request-URI", p33, second para talks about >> replacing 'a null abs_path with "*"' - surely it's replaced >> with a "/". > >I was about to say, vigorously, "no", but now I think I'm just confused >about just what the point is of that paragraph. The paragraph says: > > Request-URI = "*" | absoluteURI | abs_path >[...] >In requests that they forward, transparent proxies MUST NOT rewrite the >"abs_path" part of a Request-URI in any way except as noted above to >replace a null abs_path with "*", no matter what the proxy does in its >internal implementation. That is a leftover from when Max-Forwards was not allowed to be used with an OPTIONS request. That stuff should be removed. Unfortunately, I don't have time to make a diff to give better guidance about where "that stuff" is precisely -- one more thing to do on the plane to Chicago. ....Roy
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