Re: Do we kill the "Host:" header in HTTP/2 ?

Not as far as I know.
-=R


On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 1:10 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>wrote:

>
> Both RFC2616 and the current -bis draft, have text to this effect:
>
>    To allow for transition to the absolute-form for all requests in some
>    future version of HTTP, HTTP/1.1 servers MUST accept the absolute-
>    form in requests, even though HTTP/1.1 clients will only send them in
>    requests to proxies.
>
> Are we going to do that in HTTP/2.0, get rid of the Host: header and
> mandate absolute form URIs ?
>
> Doing so will have measurable and structural impact on the various
> attempts at space-reduction, so it might be a good idea to make this
> decision up front ?
>
> It would also save a lot of text in whatever p1:5.4 becomes in HTTP/2.0.
>
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