Re: URL's (was Re: Perl 5 LWP Design)

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From: Jack Shirazi - BIU <js@bison.lif.icnet.uk>
> > If you were to keep the proxy info separate, the request() method
> > should be passed a "this should be proxied to such-and-such"  
argument
> > (probably the URL of the proxy).  The HTTP implementation should  
then
> > use $url->str() or $url->path() in the HTTP request depending on
> > wether it's a proxy or a normal request. The implementations of  
all
> > other protocols should then complain if they are asked to proxy,
> > because they can't.
> 

> Why ("other protocols should then complain")? Is this in the  
specification?
> 


Maybe time to add my 2p: Jack is right, CERN httpd does the proxy  
service for ftp, http, gopher, and wais (maybe even more). Of course,  
all these proxy services are on an http basis.

andreas

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