Re: Decision about Host?
Brian Behlendorf (brian@organic.com)
Thu, 5 Oct 1995 16:46:28 -0700 (PDT)
On Thu, 5 Oct 1995, Jeffrey Mogul wrote:
> Good point about the current naming schemes. But then what does it
> mean if a client sends:
>
> Host: www
>
> To me, this is an error, and the server can report it as such.
> What else could it possibly do?
That decision should be up to the server administrator, and there can be
suggested but *not* mandatory responses to this situation. I know I
would configure my server to presume "www" = "www.organic.com". I also
suggest not touching "the string between the // and the first / or :" at
all, but that's just me.
Brian
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