- From: Martin J. Dürst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
- Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2025 17:47:13 +0900
- To: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>, Glenn Strauss <gs-lists-ietf-http-wg@gluelogic.com>
- Cc: Mike Kistler <mikekistler@microsoft.com>, "ietf-http-wg@w3.org" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On 2025-02-01 15:37, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Sat, Feb 01, 2025 at 12:27:55AM -0500, Glenn Strauss wrote: >> A recipient not might look for these headers, and subsequently not >> take any action based on these headers for which it did not look. >> It really is as simple as that. > > Exaactly. Let's keep in mind the good old HTTP servers we used to > write as shell scripts called from inetd. They *were* HTTP servers, > and they were just checking the method and the URI, ignoring any > header field and returning valid responses (sometimes including > content-length as checked from the delivered file). Yes. And very similar things are used widely today, e.g. Sinatra for Ruby or Flask for Python or many others for many other programming languages. Regards, Martin.
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