[Zope-dev] Zope as a proxy - cache server

[Martijn Pieters]

From: Sam Gendler [mailto:sgendler@impossible.com]
> > 
> > Currently, ZServer adhers closely to the HTTP RFC by allowing only
> > requests of the form '[METHOD] [/path] HTTP/[version]'. 
> Proxy requests
> > are of the form '[METHOD] [Full URL] HTTP/[version]', where 
> [Full URL]
> > is something like http://a.host.address/path.
> 
> Oops.  The current HTTP protocol (1.1) specifically states 
> that a server
> MUST be able to accept a fully qualified URL (this is in an attempt to
> get clients across the internet to STOP sending just the path in the
> request).

I never said that it adheres to the HTTP/1.1 RFC =) I have understood
that medusa (on which ZServer is build), is still somewhat far removed
from full compliance.

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