- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:53:04 -0700
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, "WAF WG (public)" <public-appformats@w3.org>
Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 01:40:33 +0200, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: >> I recommend that the spec default the port to the default port for the >> given scheme (80 for http:, 443 for https:, etc). > > I believe this was removed based on feedback from implementors. But maybe > we haven't fully considered all the options back then. I think we should > integrate this proposal as to not require authors to specify :80 on their > shared hosting accounts. The new algorithm would work as follows: > > http://example.org matches against http://example.org:80 but not > http://example.org:81 The port defaults to the default port for the scheme. Sounds good. > example.org matches against http://example.org:80, > https://example.org:8000, etc. The scheme and port both act as a wildcard. Hmm.. this isn't really ideal I think as it would be very easy to forget to add the 'http://' part and inadvertently end up in the situation Ian describes. Could we use the default port of the requesting scheme instead? / Jonas
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