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yfiapo | 3 years ago
> Host: neverssl.com
> This is actually a requirement for HTTP/1.1, and was one of its big selling points compared to, uh...
> AhAH! Drew yourself into a corner didn't you.
> ...Gopher? I guess?
I feel like the author must know this.. HTTP/1.0 supported but didn't require the Host header and thus HTTP/1.1 allowed consistent name-based virtual hosting on web servers.
I did appreciate the simple natures of the early protocols, although it is hard to argue against the many improvements in newer protocols. It was so easy to use nc to test SMTP and HTTP in particular.
I did enjoy the article's notes on the protocols however the huge sections of code snippets lost my attention midway.
proto_lambda|3 years ago
The author does know this, it's a reference to a couple paragraphs above:
> [...] and the HTTP protocol version, which is a fixed string which is always set to HTTP/1.1 and nothing else.
> (cool bear) But what ab-
> IT'S SET TO HTTP/1.1 AND NOTHING ELSE.
yfiapo|3 years ago