Re: [cpp-netlib-devel] Http Host header missing port in case of non-default port usage.

[Raindog <ra...@ma...>]

On 12/8/2010 9:27 PM, Dean Michael Berris wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Raindog<ra...@ma...>  wrote:
> >  Hello,
> >
> >  I discovered that when using a url such as
> >  "http://www.example.com:8080", that the HTTP header will only contain:
> >
> >  Host: www.example.com
> >
> >  When it should contain (at least according to Curl and .NET) the
> >  non-default port after it. such as:
> >
> >  Host: www.example.com:8080
> >
>
> Interesting. This looks like a bug to me. Can you file it in
> https://github.com/cpp-netlib/cpp-netlib/issues ?
>
> >
> >  Thanks.
> >
> >  P.S.
> >
> >  I got my file uploader working.. Took a while to test everything because
> >  of various build issues, but all is done.
> >
>
> Cool, thanks for letting us know!
>
>    
I also had an issue with some headers not being able to be removed w/ 
the remove_header directive nor w/ request.remove_header. After some 
digging it turns out that the headers I wanted to remove are hard coded 
to be added. Thingslike:

Connection: Close

and

Accept-Encoding

During my debugging I was trying to recreate some known working HTTP 
requests and the working requests did not have those headers so I wanted 
to remove them but couldn't. Turns out that it did work with them added 
so it wasn't a big deal.