Re: Host header issue

Roy T. Fielding (fielding@kiwi.ICS.UCI.EDU)
Sat, 04 Sep 1999 23:32:44 -0700 

>Can anyone explain what the justification was for requiring
>the host: header even when their is a perfectly good
>host indication in the absoluteURI?

So that an old proxy will forward the Host field, and to satisfy an
IESG request.

....Roy