Guido van Rossum added the comment: Wow. This is interesting. I thought that absolute URL support was only for proxies, but the spec you quote says clearly it should be supported as a transition towards always specifying the full URL. I guess they want to get rid of the Host: header?
In any case I would worry (a bit) that this might cause security issues if implemented as naively as shown in your patch -- the other components of the URL should probably be validated against the configuration of the server. Also I am wondering whether specifying a different port or protocol (e.g. HTTPS) should be allowed or not, and what to do with extraneous parts of the path (in particular the "#fragment" identifier). You should probably also be careful with path-less domain names -- IIRC some URL parsers produce "" as the path for e.g. "http://python.org";. Finally, AFAIK the HTTP 1.1 standard is full of ideas that few server implementations support, for various reasons, and it's possible that a future standard actually rescinds (or discourages) some features. Have you asked for the status of this particular feature? ---------- nosy: +gvanrossum _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue21472> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
