- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2011 20:12:38 +0000
- To: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
- cc: Andreas Petersson <andreas@sbin.se>, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, "Thomson, Martin" <Martin.Thomson@commscope.com>, Karl Dubost <karld@opera.com>, "ietf-http-wg@w3.org" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
In message <20110408195627.GB15625@1wt.eu>, Willy Tarreau writes: >On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 07:42:54PM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >Most people would not even know [...] That should not cause us to write standards that make life impossible for the people who do know and who do have the need. >The SHOULD was for us to encourage pushing the format. I'm discussing >the proposed format. I'd rather see : > > src-IP [ ':' src-port ] [ '/' dst-IP ':' dst-port ] > >Which also happens to be compatible with current uses. There is no current uses of "Forwarded-For", backwards compatibility therefore does not prevent us from doing it right. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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