looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs

Sat Feb 23 00:10:31 UTC 2013

Well, the followup question is: are absolute host names "real", or /solely/ hint to the local resolver not to search-list?

I will reread 1035 later tonight ...

Brian Reichert <reichert at numachi.com> wrote:

>On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 05:46:27PM -0500, Jay Ashworth wrote:
>> So, should browsers send absolute host names in http/1.1 requests,
>and shouldn't servers strip the trailing dot if they get one?
>> 
>> I vote No and Yes, resp.
>
>The first question is tough, only because of the depth of the
>exatblished convention.  I think I would argue 'Yes', as to remove
>ambiguity, but that naively makes a lot of legacy software trip in
>unexpected ways.
>
>As for the second question, I generally disapprove of throwing away
>information, so I say No.
>
>Clearly I like to make trouble for myself. :)
>
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>Brian Reichert				<reichert at numachi.com>
>BSD admin/developer at large	

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