Transparent (redirecting) proxy with BaseHTTPServer

paul koelle paul at subsignal.org
Thu Jan 27 18:49:36 EST 2005


Thanks, aurora ;),

aurora wrote:
> If you actually want the IP, resolve the host header would give you that.
I' m only interested in the hostname.

> 
> The second form of HTTP request without the host part is for 
> compatability  of pre-HTTP/1.1 standard. All modern web browser should 
> send the Host  header.
How safe is the assumtion that the Host header will be there? Is it part 
of the HTTP/1.1 spec? And does it mean all "pre 1.1" clients will fail? 
Hmm, maybe I should look on the wire whats really happening...

thanks again
  Paul



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