Re: HTTP/1.1 CONNECT request without Host header

On Jun 16, 2009, at 3:26 PM, Adrien de Croy wrote:

> I recently updated our proxy to reject all HTTP/1.1 messages from  
> clients that lack a Host header.
>
> This has been found to break a number of clients which use the  
> CONNECT method.

What clients?

> So it's going to be a necessity to relax this particular  
> requirement (in our proxy) at least for CONNECT.

Unlikely.  Apache always responds to such a request with 400.
AFAIK, all the other origin servers do as well, so even if the
request is passed by your proxy it is going to fail on the origin.

....Roy

Received on Wednesday, 17 June 2009 00:08:05 UTC