Re: About that Host: header....
Daniel DuBois (ddubois@rafiki.spyglass.com)
Wed, 20 Mar 1996 09:38:29 -0600
At 10:11 PM 3/19/96 -0500, John C Klensin wrote:
>requirement. Even if we "require" that servers return an error message, it
>just pushes the problem a bit further out. We will find, I'm afraid
>inevitably, that some idiot will decide to not bother sending "host" in the
>interest of a few extra cycles of efficiency and that other idiots will make
>the server error message a configurable option, also in the interest of
>efficiency. Extrapolation from the history of the Internet predicts to a
>lot of such idiots.
Those same idiots would enable 200 OK responses to HTTP/1.1 requests that
don't have the full URL in the request line and use the 1.0 partial URL
style, or they'd make the error response a configurable option. So it's a
moot point.
I think Host: will be just fine.
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