Re: Odd sockets problem?

Thanks, Ken.

I forgot that IBM follows every RFC to the "T", unlike most
others.  :)  

Thanks for the clarification.

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 07:59:05 -0800
 Ken Sims <mdrg4136@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> >I've never seen this..  Maybe a bug in websphere?  I
> >suppose I could look closely at the HTTP RFC, but I've
> >never seen this before.
> 
> RTFM.  See section 14.23 of
> http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt
> 
> To quote a couple of sentences:
> 
>    The Host request-header field specifies the Internet
> host and port
>    number of the resource being requested, as obtained
> from the original
>    URI given by the user or referring resource (generally
> an HTTP URL,
>    as described in section 3.2.2).
> 
>    A "host" without any trailing port information implies
> the default
>    port for the service requested (e.g., "80" for an HTTP
> URL).
> 
> --
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