Re: I-D draft-petersson-forwarded-for-00.txt

In message <20110407115939.GA6428@1wt.eu>, Willy Tarreau writes:

>I don't see any reason to make them mandatory in place where no ports are
>indicated, because there is no ambiguity.

One bery good reason for making it mandatory is that having a big fat '['
makes it much easier and faster to parse the header.

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Received on Thursday, 7 April 2011 12:07:27 UTC