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Re: issue 11: URI includes query

From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:02:39 +0100
Message-ID: <4EBD471F.6010005@gmx.de>
To: Dmitry Kurochkin <dmitry.kurochkin@measurement-factory.com>
CC: ietf-http-wg@w3.org, Alex Rousskov <rousskov@measurement-factory.com>
On 2011-11-11 16:23, Dmitry Kurochkin wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Issue 11 "URI includes query" [1] does not seem to be fully fixed.  The
> issue fixes missing query part in request-target BNF.  But it is also
> missing in HTTPbis part 1 section 4.1:
>
>     A non-transforming proxy MUST NOT rewrite the "path-absolute" part of
>     the received request-target when forwarding it to the next inbound
>     server, except as noted above to replace a null path-absolute with
>     "/" or "*".
>
> This MUST should forbid changing both path-absolute and query parts of
> the request-target.
>
> I am not sure if issue 11 should be reopened or a new issue created for
> this one.
>
> Regards,
>    Dmitry
>
> [1] http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/11

Indeed; thanks for paying attention!

A simple fix appears to replace

   "path-absolute" part

by

   "path-absolute" and "query" parts

Feedback appreciated,

Julian
Received on Friday, 11 November 2011 16:03:16 UTC

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