RE: Host header issue

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Stracke [mailto:francis@ecal.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 11:30 AM
> To: http-wg@hplb.hpl.hp.com
> Subject: Re: Host header issue
> 
> This isn't necessarily pathological.  My home network 
> includes a proxy; it runs
> Apache with mod_proxy, and that same Apache also serves up 
> its own content.  It
> has two CNAMEs, "proxy" and "www"; my browser is configured 
> to use "proxy" as
> its proxy.  So, if I send my browser to http://www/foo.html, 
> then Apache gets a
> request whose request-URI is http://www/foo.html.  It knows 
> that www is itself,
> so it delivers its own content.
>
In which case you really dont need the Host: header...
hence my point..

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