Hello Matthias, sorry for the very late reply. This has been fixed in the 2.0 branch on 12/29/2008. I wonder why it has not been fixed in the 1.1 branch as well. I'll discuss this point with Jérôme.
Best regards, Thierry Boileau Hello, > > I have an issue when using the HTTP Client to send requests to a (full > custom) HTTP server. I use roughly the following code to generate the > request: > > client = new Client(Protocol.HTTP); > request = new Request(Method.POST, "http://example.com:5000/";); > someForm = new Form(); > /* add some stuff to the form ... */ > request.setEntity(someForm.getWebRepresentation(CharacterSet.ISO_8859_1)); > response = client.handle(request); > /* ... */ > > Using Restlet 1.1.10, this will send the following request to the server > (seen through Wireshark): > > POST http://example.com:5000/ HTTP/1.1 > Host: example.com:5000 > User-Agent: Noelios-Restlet-Engine/1.1.10 > Accept: */* > Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=ISO-8859-1 > Content-Length: 40 > Connection: close > > nickname=*foo*&detail=2&connectlist=json > > I'm running into trouble because of the request (first) line, which > contains the full host/port/path combo instead of just the absolute path. > The server I'm talking to (which is not under my control) does not like to > see the host duplicated there. > > If I understand the relevane section from RFC2616 correctly, the server > should be able to deal with that request, but Restlet should not have > generated it that way in the first place: > > > http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec5.html#sec5.1.2 > > <quote> > 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. > </quote> > > Any thoughts on this? > > -Matthias > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=2637045 > ------------------------------------------------------ http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=2649128
