The following reply was made to PR protocol/1454; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Lars Eilebrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Anand Kumria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: protocol/1454: Apache doesn't always understand requests wit Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 18:05:04 +0100 (CET) According to Anand Kumria: [...] > As I have tried to explain above the rules for processing requests don't > consider the absence of the Host: header until rule 3. Apache is > rejecting the document too early in its request parsing process. But a client sending a HTTP/1.1 fullURI request *must* send a Host: header. If the client doesn't send such a header it is broken and should be fixed. Apache provides some workarounds for specific versions of broken popular browsers (eg. Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Explorer), but providing a general 'workaround' for broken HTTP/1.1 clients is IMHO not useful. ciao... -- Lars Eilebrecht - RFC 1925: "It is more complicated than you think." [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.si.unix-ag.org/~sfx/
