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

[Dean M. B. <mik...@gm...>]

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Raindog <ra...@ma...> wrote:
>
> 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.
>

Is this 0.8? The Connection header AFAIK is required in HTTP requests.
In HTTP/1.1 the Accept-Encoding header tells the server to actually
just send data encoded a certain way.

In 0.9 this should change.

Please file issues at https://github.com/cpp-netlib/cpp-netlib/issues
so that we can track this appropriately.

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Dean Michael Berris
deanberris.com