Re: A question for the protocol gurus...

2002-02-01 Thread Graham Leggett
"Roy T. Fielding" wrote: > It can fail however it likes -- transparent gateways are not allowed in HTTP. > Once you violate the protocol, you are doomed to any number of unspecified > workarounds that will ultimately fail outside the common case. Makes sense. Regards, Graham -- ---

Re: A question for the protocol gurus...

2002-01-31 Thread Roy T. Fielding
> But in theory this could also happen with HTTP/1.0 if a client asks for > /blah and doesn't include a host header - in this case the gateway has > no way of figuring out who to connect to, and must fail as I understand > it with "505 Upgrade Dammnit". Am I right? It can fail however it likes --

Re: A question for the protocol gurus...

2002-01-31 Thread Graham Leggett
"Roy T. Fielding" wrote: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 09:25:24PM -0500, Chuck Murcko wrote: > > So as Graham said proxy should reply 501 or 505 right? > > It doesn't matter -- HTTP/0.9 responses don't have error codes. > You just have to return an HTML page that tells the user to get out > of their

Re: A question for the protocol gurus...

2002-01-30 Thread Roy T. Fielding
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 09:25:24PM -0500, Chuck Murcko wrote: > So as Graham said proxy should reply 501 or 505 right? It doesn't matter -- HTTP/0.9 responses don't have error codes. You just have to return an HTML page that tells the user to get out of their rocking chair and upgrade the client

Re: A question for the protocol gurus...

2002-01-29 Thread Chuck Murcko
So as Graham said proxy should reply 501 or 505 right? Chuck On Tuesday, January 29, 2002, at 05:47 PM, Roy T. Fielding wrote: >> On the proxy list there is talk of support for transparent-proxy >> behaviour, and the question has come up "what about HTTP/0.9?". Am I >> correct in saying it is n

Re: A question for the protocol gurus...

2002-01-29 Thread Roy T. Fielding
> On the proxy list there is talk of support for transparent-proxy > behaviour, and the question has come up "what about HTTP/0.9?". Am I > correct in saying it is not possible to find the destination server if > the protocol is v0.9 or v1.0, and there is no host header, and there is > no complete

Re: A question for the protocol gurus...

2002-01-29 Thread Tony Finch
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 12:35:58AM +0200, Graham Leggett wrote: > > On the proxy list there is talk of support for transparent-proxy > behaviour, and the question has come up "what about HTTP/0.9?". Am I > correct in saying it is not possible to find the destination server if > the protocol is v0

Re: A question for the protocol gurus...

2002-01-29 Thread Eli Marmor
Graham Leggett wrote: > On the proxy list there is talk of support for transparent-proxy > behaviour, and the question has come up "what about HTTP/0.9?". Am I > correct in saying it is not possible to find the destination server if > the protocol is v0.9 or v1.0, and there is no host header, and

A question for the protocol gurus...

2002-01-29 Thread Graham Leggett
Hi all, On the proxy list there is talk of support for transparent-proxy behaviour, and the question has come up "what about HTTP/0.9?". Am I correct in saying it is not possible to find the destination server if the protocol is v0.9 or v1.0, and there is no host header, and there is no complete