RE: part 1 section 4.1.2 - authority form

FWIW, this is going to get much more relevant as WebSockets will make the practice of CONNECT'ing to non-443 ports much more common.

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From: ietf-http-wg-request@w3.org [mailto:ietf-http-wg-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Stenberg
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 4:06 AM
To: Amos Jeffries
Cc: HTTP Working Group
Subject: Re: part 1 section 4.1.2 - authority form

On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, Amos Jeffries wrote:

> Part 2 on CONNECT appears to document this as wrong, but uses port 80 
> which is a little bit ambiguous given that CONNECT are usually used 
> for 443. Am I right in assuming that it means the port is always 
> required on CONNECT request Host: headers? (despite the obvious redundancy).

Many years ago we had curl include the port number unconditionally in Host: 
headers, only to switch it off again since there were too many proxies/servers out there that didn't like Host: headers with the default port given.

In short: when doing HTTPS (CONNECT) curl doesn't include port 443 in the
Host: header.

When doing HTTP, curl doesn't include port 80 in the Host: header.

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Received on Tuesday, 16 August 2011 16:58:16 UTC