Okay. I get it. It's on Section 5.1.2. But it says...
"The absoluteURI form is REQUIRED when the request is being made *to* a proxy." I just need to know if it's possible to force Apache to ignore the missing Host field (or at least make it insert a default one if it's missing). Is there such directive? Tried googling it but didn't give me an answer. Eduardo Tongson wrote: > No that is not an AbsoluteURI. If that was the request it should be a > combination of GET+Host according so HTTP 1.1 specification: > > GET /some/file.html HTTP/1.1 > Host: johnpeterloh.com > > Ed <blog.eonsec.com> > > On 12/24/07, John Peter Loh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 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 >> > _________________________________________________ > 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
