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Posted to dev@commons.apache.org by Ryan Lubke <Ry...@Sun.COM> on 2002/07/11 20:23:30 UTC

Re: [Fwd: [HttpClient][PATCH] Correction to addHostRequestHeader+minor formatting cleanups]

> From conversations with Roy Fielding (one of the authors of RFC 2616, and
> a board member of the Apache Software Foundation) during development of
> Tomcat's HTTP stack, I believe that this is exactly the intention of the
> "including updates" clause.  And existing server applications utilize the
> "Host" header (if present on an HTTP/1.0 transaction) to implement
> software virtual hosting.
> 
> That being said, it sounds like a configuration property to turn this on
> or off might be useful.

Well, there is a strict mode for HTTP/1.1.  Perhaps this could be
expanded to have strict modes for both 1.1 and 1.0?


> 
> Craig
> 
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