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On 25/07/2014 5:26 a.m., Mark Nottingham wrote:
> Er, :authority?

Is routinely omitted in HTTP/1.0 port 80 requests without Host: header.
Recipient is required to assume itself.

Amos

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> On 24 Jul 2014, at 11:49 am, Michael Sweet wrote:
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>> I think for OPTIONS the client can omit all but the :method pseudo header.  In any case, I'm +1 on clarifying this in the spec, particularly for "OPTIONS *".
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>> On Jul 24, 2014, at 11:27 AM, Martin Thomson wrote:
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>>> On 24 July 2014 08:14, Amos Jeffries  wrote:
>>>> IMHO it be more correct to say simply that :path may be omitted on
>>>> OPTIONS and represents a request for "*" asterisk-form? as opposed to a
>>>> 0-length :path field which represents the path-empty case.
>>>
>>> That would permit a more correct reconstruction of the original 1.1 request.
>>>
>>> I think that I need a second opinion before making such a change. What
>>> do others think?
>>>
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>> _________________________________________________________
>> Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair
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