[Zope-Moz] [OT] ZServer breakage wrt HTTP - 2.1.3

Martijn Pieters mj@digicool.com
Fri, 11 Feb 2000 13:29:12 -0500


I am cleaning up the recipient list a little bit.

From: Tres Seaver [mailto:tseaver@palladion.com]
> > 
> > The host part and the protocol part of the URL are never sent to the
> > server. After all, they define on what port and on what 
> server you place
> > the call.
> 
> I think that HTTP 1.1 has a header for passing the hostname 
> and port to enable
> virtual hosting, but it is not int the "method" line.

Indeed, the HTTP/1.1 protocol states there should be a Host: header, and
many clients send this header with HTTP/1.0 requests as well. It is used
for Virtual Host support.

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