Re: --enable-underscores as default?

Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 October 2002 01.44, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>
>
>>Is there any particular reason we're not enabling underscores in
>>hostnames by default these days?
>
>
> My opinion is that we should probably drop all hostname verification
> from Squid by default. It is not really our business to police the
> use of hostnames within HTTP.
>
> Sure, browsers who accept to send other than a-z 0-9 - . in hostnames
> are strictly not RFC2616 compliant, but so what? I for one do not
> have a problem with our request not beeing RFC compliant if the
> request we received was not.

I agree. Be flexible in what you accept and strict in what you send,
and all that stuff... (Of course, being a proxy means we have to accept
and sent the same thing, but still the sentiment applies, I think.)

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