- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@kiwi.ICS.UCI.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 14:17:07 -0700
- To: Geoff Macartney <g.macartney@apion-tss.com>
- cc: http-wg@hplb.hpl.hp.com
In message <37F363CD.87C3D72@apion-tss.com>, Geoff Macartney writes: >In the recent discussion on this topic I haven't seen a query on the >text in section 14.23 "Host" of RFC 2616 which says : > > "If the requested URI does not include an Internet host > name for the service being requested, then the Host header field MUST > be given with an empty value. " > >It is the "with an empty value" that confuses me - this seems to >contradict what is written in section 5.1.2: > "The most common form of Request-URI is that used to identify a > resource on an origin server or gateway. In this case the absolute > path of the URI MUST be transmitted (see section 3.2.1, abs_path) as > the Request-URI, and the network location of the URI (authority) MUST > be transmitted in a Host header field. " Some URI do not have an authority component, and therefore have no host, but can still be requested from an HTTP proxy. This is not a contradiction. ....Roy
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