Re: [Chicken-users] http egg and the Host request-header field

2009-02-23 Thread Peter Bex
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 02:02:22PM -0800, Drew Hess wrote: > Because the http egg always applies the port to the Host header, > there's no workaround for these broken web apps. Attached is a patch > for http so that it elides the port when it's the default. Thanks a lot for the detailed report and

[Chicken-users] http egg and the Host request-header field

2009-02-22 Thread Drew Hess
Hi, The HTTP/1.1 spec states that in the Host request-header field, the port designation is optional if the default port is used for the request. Chicken Scheme's http egg always sends the port, but some petulant web servers don't like that. Here are a couple of examples. Each of the examples dem