Re: Host: header and port number
Balint Nagy Endre (bne@bne.ind.eunet.hu)
Wed, 24 Jan 1996 07:26:33 +0100 (MET)
Larry Masinter writes: (Mon, 22 Jan 1996 22:38:36 PST )
> Folks,
>
> We're discussing two specifications:
> HTTP/1.0: an informational draft about what current practice was
> HTTP/1.x: a proposed standard about what HTTP should be.
>
> I occasionally get private and public messages about various vendor's
> products that they're shipping and whether the spec could either make
> them illegal or how product ship dates interfere with our work here.
>
> As far as the extra port number on Host goes, if you're proposing that
> we put it into the HTTP/1.0 spec, well, it probably could fit into the
> appendix along with all the other stuff that is roughly implemented in
> various places but inconsistently.
>
> This doesn't preclude us declaring that Host: in HTTP/1.x should not
> have a port number. Right?
Of course.
And host headers shouldn't be sent to ftp gateways, because FTP has no feature
similar to HTTP's Host.
Andrew. (Endre Balint Nagy) <bne@bne.ind.eunet.hu>