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

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In message <C68CB012D9182D408CED7B884F441D4D1E401FD356@nambxv01a.corp.adobe.com>, Larry Masinter writes:

>The impact was only if those high-performance implementations were using
>single IP address for multiple host names.
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>(Which would kind of be antithetical to a high-performance deployment, no?)

Uhm, have you read this ?

	http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-553

Even very high performance sites have multiple FQDNs per IP number these
days and the Host: header is often more important than the URI, because
high-performance load-balancers route HTTP only using that.

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Received on Wednesday, 30 January 2013 23:28:35 UTC