> On the proxy list there is talk of support for transparent-proxy > behaviour, and the question has come up "what about HTTP/0.9?". Am I > correct in saying it is not possible to find the destination server if > the protocol is v0.9 or v1.0, and there is no host header, and there is > no complete URL in the request (ie http://server.name/blah instead of > just /blah)? Or is there some trick to do this?
It is not possible to use a proxy with HTTP/0.9. It is possible to use a gateway, so those requests should be interpreted as local paths. A transparent proxy is a gateway (that transparent-proxy term is bogus and should not be used by us). ....Roy
