Date: Sun, 9 Oct 1994 13:27:30 +0100
Message-Id: <378na2$r22@hpsystem1.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
From: stumpf@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Markus Stumpf)
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-proxy@www0.cern.ch>
Subject: Re: Proxy implementation questions
Chris Adie <C.J.Adie@edinburgh.ac.uk> writes:
>1. Presumably the proxy should not change in any way the set of
> headers from the client before sending them on to the server.
> Not even the User-Agent: header. And vice versa.
It shouldn't change MIME headers supplied by the client, but it
may add its own ones ...
>3. Presumably the request from the proxy to the server should be:
> GET /whatever HTTP/1.0
> How about the situation where "whatever" is actually
> http://here.there/something
> In that situation the proxy shouldn't send an initial / - but
> doesn't this mean it has to parse the "whatever" to see if it is
> actually a URL?
There was some discussion of a change in the protocol to always
have a URL as "/whatever". This would make IMHO the protocol
more easier in the light of proxies. This would of course cause some
more work in parsing the URL and determining whether "here.there"
is really "me".
Due to exams I hadn't the time to follow the discussion in depth
maybe someone else could say something about it.
\Maex
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