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

On 2013-01-30 10:10, Poul-Henning Kamp 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 ?
> ...

Of course we do. It's in 1.1 just to make the transition from 1.0 
simpler. With a completely new header encoding, this issue will go away.

Best regards, Julian

Received on Wednesday, 30 January 2013 10:08:15 UTC