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Date:      Fri, 20 Nov 1998 21:05:07 +0100 (CET)
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        Per Kristian Hove <perhov@phys.ntnu.no>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, Andrew McNaughton <andrew@squiz.co.nz>
Subject:   Re: pkhttpd (Was: Would this make FreeBSD more secure?)
Message-ID:  <XFMail.981120210507.asmodai@wxs.nl>
In-Reply-To: <199811201926.LAA18418@apollo.backplane.com>

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On 20-Nov-98 Matthew Dillon wrote:

>:The 1.1 extensions are less important for simple web servers, but are
>:important if you're setting up a proxy server.
> 
>     1.1 is fairly important for both, because not only does 1.1 hack, er,
> 'fix'
>     the persistent connection protocol, it also requires the Host: header (1)
>     so as clients conform to 1.1, the server is guarenteed the ability to 
>     determine the virtual host from the Host: header rather then having to
>     assign unique IP's to each virtual host.
> 
>     note(1): the server is required to return a failure code if the client
>     says it is using HTTP/1.1 but does not supply a Host: mime header.

OK, that's all cute ;)

But how big would a fully functional HTTP 1.0 or 1.1 compliant server be?
Because for embedded systems (read picoBSD) we need to make such decisions and
based on the results implement them.

*digs out the RFC specs...*

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Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai
asmodai(at)wxs.nl                   |  Cum angelis et pueris,
Junior Network/Security Specialist  |  fideles inveniamur
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