On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 11:03:57 +0200, Graham Leggett wrote about "Re: proxy request handling bug?": > Koga Youichirou wrote: > > >I found that 1.3.26 and 2.0.39 without mod_proxy accept proxy requests > >and treat them as requsts to its URIs. > > > >Is this behavior right? > > As far as I am aware, yes. If an attempt is made to fetch data on a > virtual host not configured locally, Apache serves the default config. > > Remember that specifying the sitename in the URI after the GET is > (AFAIK) just as valid for normal webservers as it is for proxies. >
To quote, if I may, from the RFC: To allow for transition to absoluteURIs in all requests in future versions of HTTP, all HTTP/1.1 servers MUST accept the absoluteURI form in requests, even though HTTP/1.1 clients will only generate them in requests to proxies. Best, Zvi. -- Dr. Zvi Har'El mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Mathematics tel:+972-54-227607 Technion - Israel Institute of Technology fax:+972-4-8324654 http://www.math.technion.ac.il/~rl/ Haifa 32000, ISRAEL "If you can't say somethin' nice, don't say nothin' at all." -- Thumper (1942) Monday, 13 Av 5762, 22 July 2002, 12:10PM
