[161035] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Reichert)
Fri Feb 22 18:21:15 2013
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 17:56:23 -0500
From: Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com>
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
In-Reply-To: <97006e8c-d3bd-4ced-b814-fc880130fbe1@email.android.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 05:46:27PM -0500, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> So, should browsers send absolute host names in http/1.1 requests, and shouldn't servers strip the trailing dot if they get one?
>
> I vote No and Yes, resp.
The first question is tough, only because of the depth of the
exatblished convention. I think I would argue 'Yes', as to remove
ambiguity, but that naively makes a lot of legacy software trip in
unexpected ways.
As for the second question, I generally disapprove of throwing away
information, so I say No.
Clearly I like to make trouble for myself. :)
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Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com>
BSD admin/developer at large
