- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 15:29:34 +1100
- To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Cc: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
We discussed this in Stockholm and there was agreement in the room to make an empty authority in a HTTP(S) URI an error. I'm listing this for -08. <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/145> On 15/04/2009, at 4:43 PM, Mark Nottingham wrote: > 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/ > > -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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