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

On 1/31/2013 1:28 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
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> In message <C68CB012D9182D408CED7B884F441D4D1E401FD356@nambxv01a.corp.adobe.com>, Larry Masinter writes:
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>> 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?)
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> Uhm, have you read this ?
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> 	http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-553
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> 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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The only reason they use the Host: header is since it's there.
It can be simply measured if needed.

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Eliezer Croitoru

Received on Thursday, 31 January 2013 12:22:54 UTC