text_combined: julian reschke julianreschkegmxde julian reschke wrote using absolute uri common practice http anything requests proxies however rfc 2616 requires servers understand support absolute uris sec 512 experience safe thing assume http servers generally treat uri sensibly investigation 1 rfc2616 also states even though http11 clients generate requests proxies means cant use conforming http11 client produce 2 tested apache 228 seems ignore scheme seems bug raised 3 also tested ms iis 51 immediately produces 501 status unknown schemes br julian _______________________________________________ ietf mailing list ietfietforg httpswwwietforgmailmanlistinfoietf wed 06 aug 2008 082141 0400 past lc comments draftietfgeoprivhttplocationdelivery08