Re: Host: header and port number

BearHeart / Bill Weinman (bearheart@BearNet.com)
Mon, 22 Jan 1996 23:17:47 -0600


At 09:03 pm 1/22/96 -0800, Rob McCool spake:
>We are at a point where fixing Netscape 2.0's behavior is not an option
>for this release. What I would like to propose is that both
>specifications can co-exist.

   Rob, 

   Perhaps I'm missing something, but I can't seem to figure 
out what a server would do with the port number. 

   If a request comes in on, say port 80, and it says: 

   www.foo.com:8000

   What does the server do with that? 


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