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

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

On 12/8/2010 11:37 PM, Dean Michael Berris wrote:
> 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.
>
>    

I am using the 0.9 branch.