- From: Reinier Post <reinpost@win.tue.nl>
- Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 15:27:40 +0100 (MET)
- To: Craig.Bishop@barwonwater.vic.gov.au
- Cc: www-proxy@www10.w3.org
You (Craig.Bishop@barwonwater.vic.gov.au) write: > >We have TIS plug-gw on our bastion host, on the firewall, >directing port 80 to an internal host running the CERN server. >The bastion host has a "www" CNAME. > >However, the URI in the above mail header will not work. If you >add a / to end it works. This will turn it into a valid URL. Adding / is important in operations that add or subtract URL tails: proxy handling, other redirections, the resolution of relative URLs, and more. [...] >Thoughts? Thanks. Use valid URLs. Most programs will accept http://host:port http:///host (mostly by adding the missing / before doing any further processing) but these URLs are invalid really. -- Reinier Post reinpost@win.tue.nl
Received on Wednesday, 1 March 1995 04:30:26 UTC