- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:21:48 -0800
- To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Cc: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Host is full of baggage imposed by folks who never implemented HTTP and had no way of knowing that mandating Host on all messages was a complete waste of time (it had already been implemented on all browsers). We don't need to change the mandate, but we can improve the description so that it explains all of the types of possible HTTP requests and note the fact that not all URIs have a host portion. The empty Host is for that reason. I thought that this was already on the issues list, but I guess not. Note that host in RFC3986 is already defined to allow empty (because reg-name can be empty). ....Roy
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