- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:55:55 +0200
- To: Yves Lafon <ylafon@w3.org>
- CC: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, Roy Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>
Yves Lafon wrote: > On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Julian Reschke wrote: > >> Mark Nottingham wrote: >>> ... >>> Closing issue. Julian, at some point it would probably be good to >>> update the change note to reflect that this wasn't done just because >>> of poor implementation take-up; the reason behind that was that using >>> C-L for base caused problems with conneg and other situations (IIRC). >>> ... >> >> I'll happily do that, if somebody could remind what these problems >> are/were... > > Well, the main issue is lack of implementation on client side, bad CL > headers sent by servers especially when servers are behind a front-end. > (like CL: http://10.1.2.80:8080/foo ), making it hard to rely on in the > general case. Yes, that's the reason that's already listed: UAs did not implement it (so servers got away with sending broken headers, and now the UA implementers say they can't fix it anymore). BR, Julian
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