Re: 5.1.2 Request-URI
Roy T. Fielding (fielding@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU)
Fri, 26 Apr 1996 17:05:09 -0700
> Okay, I'll accept your arguments. However, there is still a piece I feel
> is missing:
>
> 1) We want clients to send, and servers to accept, an absoluteURI.
No, we only want servers to accept an absoluteURI. Clients can't
send it until 2.0.
> 2) Eventually we want to obviate the need for Host:.
Not in 1.x. The stuff added to the third block of text in section 5.1.2
is wrong -- it needs to be removed.
> 3) The purpose of absoluteURI and/or Host is to specify the virtual host
> for (at least) an http_URL.
That is only one of many things that absoluteURI is used for in the
specification. In fact, it is probably the least important of them.
> The reason I've been trying to restrict the absoluteURI syntax is that
> then it becomes easy to identify the virtual host. I believe somewhere
> in the spec. there should be an explanation of how to identify the
> virtual host of "the resource identified by the request".
I believe Koen asked for such a section of text to be added to the
section on Requests. However, that must not change the protocol syntax.
(and it ain't gunna write itself)
......Roy