- From: Josh Cohen (Exchange) <joshco@Exchange.Microsoft.com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 13:12:45 -0700
- To: "'Larry Masinter'" <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Cc: HTTP Working Group <http-wg@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
> -----Original Message----- > From: Larry Masinter [mailto:masinter@parc.xerox.com] > Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 4:41 PM > To: Josh Cohen (Exchange) > Cc: HTTP Working Group > Subject: RE: Host header issue > > b) not require that a server respond with an error if the Host > header were missing (since HTTP/1.1 clients should only > send absolute URIs to proxies.) > I will double check, but my reading of the spec says that origin servers need to understand absoluteURIs. If they receive an absolute URI, what is the point of requiring a host header?
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