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

Most often of the same set of domains unless some interesting analytics are
being collected, in which one is always SOL :)
On Feb 1, 2013 7:41 PM, "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:

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> In message <em21b5c00f-6f56-4671-b498-5a198dc090e9@bombed>, "Adrien W. de
> Croy"
>  writes:
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> >Also why transmit the host every request when it hardly ever changes.
>
> Just because your installation doesn't see it changing, doesn't mean
> that it "hardly ever changes" for everybody else :-)
>
> A load-balancer in front of a web-hosting farm will often see
> many different hosts requested on the same connection, in particular
> if the connection comes from a proxy.
>
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