Re: About that Host: header....
Roy T. Fielding (fielding@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU)
Sun, 24 Mar 1996 19:46:45 -0800
> I don't see this as an incompatible change, assuming wording is put into
> the spec along the lines of the following: "A client may not send request
> to an HTTP server using a full URL in the request until it has determined
> that the server is compatible with HTTP/1.1 or later."
Because it doesn't gain us anything more than just sending Host on
all HTTP/1.x requests. If there was something wrong with the Host
solution, then I could understand the desire to do that. However,
given that there is nothing wrong with the Host solution, and Host
has already been deployed, this all seems like a waste of time.
...Roy T. Fielding
Department of Information & Computer Science (fielding@ics.uci.edu)
University of California, Irvine, CA 92717-3425 fax:+1(714)824-4056
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/