- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@kiwi.ICS.UCI.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 13:46:35 -0700
- To: "Josh Cohen (Exchange)" <joshco@exchange.microsoft.com>
- cc: http-wg@hplb.hpl.hp.com
In message <BFF90FB6CF66D111BF4F0000F840DB850BCBBB91@LASSIE>, "Josh Cohen (Exch ange)" writes: >I would like to propose: > >1) If a client is issuing a 1.1 request and the client has obtained >positive knowledge, possibly through an out of band mechanism, that all >proxies and the origin server in the request path are 1.1 compliant or >better, that it may omit the host header when absolute URIs are used. > >2) Clients are permitted to use absoluteURIs when talking to 1.1 servers. > >Does this seem reasonable ? Of course not. Try it with any HTTP/1.1 compliant server now and you will get a 400 response. Those servers won't disappear just because an RFC is modified. This part of the standard will never change without a version bump. Never. ....Roy
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