Re^4: write a small Perl HTTP server

No, that's incorrect:

The HTTP RFC (2616) defines the Request-Line thus (section 5.1):

Request-Line = Method SP Request-URI SP HTTP-Version CRLF

And Request-URI thus:

Request-URI = "*" | absoluteURI | abs_path | authority

So although you *may* supply an absolute path as an argument to GET, you may also supply a URI; in fact, you'll see that that's what virtually all clients send, because otherwise virtual hosts will be broken.

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Re^5: write a small Perl HTTP server by Anonymous Monk on Jul 09, 2004 at 17:36 UTC
Virtual Hosts work with a Host: field in the header. An URI is syntactically correct in this place, however the semantic is "proxy this". It's mentioned because the protocol for proxies is HTTP too.	[reply]
Re^6: write a small Perl HTTP server by gaal (Parson) on Jul 09, 2004 at 17:57 UTC
Ugh, you're right, I forgot about the `Host:` header. ACK the point on semantic indication, too. I stand corrected! In any case, the `IO::All` code still needs to be fixed so that it looks for the object after a single slash; and without query params; and it should discard the HTTP version string, too, if it's not doing anything with it.	[reply] [d/l] [select]