- From: David Morris <dwm@xpasc.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 07:39:13 -0800 (PST)
- cc: <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Julian Reschke wrote: > > Frank Ellermann wrote: > > Julian Reschke wrote: > > > >> The Host request-header field (section 14.23) MUST accompany > >> all HTTP/1.1 requests. > > > >> ...any reason why the Host header requirement is listed here so > >> prominently (duplicating text from 14.23)? > > > > Servers are supposed to reject HTTP/1.1 requests without a Host: > > header field as broken. It took me until version 0.7 of a dummy > > http://purl.net/xyzzy/httpd404.htm#history "server" to get this > > right, some years ago. > > Understood -- I was just wondering why it's mentioned in the intro to > "Methods" -- wouldn't it better fit into Section 5 (Request)? Certainly at the time a big stick was felt to be necessary to make sure the feature was supported by all general UAs. Dave Morris
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