- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:43:18 +1000
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
now part of #159 http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/159 On 12/02/2009, at 2:46 AM, Julian Reschke wrote: > > Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: >> Hi, >> According to RFC 2616 under the RFC 2396 interpretation of "host" >> and >> as noted in RFC 3986 the "host" component of the authority in http >> URIs >> cannot be the empty string. draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging-05 >> however >> does allow the empty string as host. If that is intentional it >> should be >> pointed out clearly below the definition of the scheme's syntax. > > There's a (closed) issue that is somehow related: <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/92 > >, see: > >> In other words, part 1 needs to define an empty host is an error >> for the http and https schemes. >> In any case, servers that break based on any network input, valid >> or not, are broken. > > Seems that we should open a separate issue for that. > > BR, Julian > -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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