They connect directly to our servers. According to the logs, the URIs are absolute even when we were returning HTTP 200.
Just to make sure that we're on the same groud, the header should be like the following to be absolute, right?: GET /some/file.html HTTP/1.1 Eduardo Tongson wrote: > I reread the RFC again. I found out that Host: can be omitted in HTTP > 1.1 if you use an AbsoluteURI. Interestingly Apache does not follow > the specification. I tested it on Apache 1.3.x and 2. Thttpd works ok > with AbsoluteURI. > > The specification also mentions "The absoluteURI form is REQUIRED when > the request is being made to a proxy." In your case it is possible > that the third party was previously using a proxy. > > Ed <blog.eonsec.com> > > On 12/24/07, Eduardo Tongson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 12/24/07, John Peter Loh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I had problems with installing wireshark. I got all the headers with >>> mod_dumpio for Apache (what I'll get is almost the same, right?). >>> >>> The only reason I'm not sure if the Host header wasn't sent is that we >>> don't have all the headers sent went everything was fine. >> Yes mod_dumpio is adequate. Per the HTTP RFC the Host header is >> required for HTTP 1.1. If the third party is really using HTTP 1.1 >> from the start there should not be any problem. >> >> Obviously it is their fault because they said the Host header was not >> present before. Tell them that it is unlikely for Apache to talk HTTP >> 1.1 without them sending the Host header. >> >> Ed <blog.eonsec.com> >> > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
