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Pav_70755
Apr 01, 2011Nimbostratus
Host re-direct except for directory?
I've been trying to use this re-direct to re-direct a main domain e.g. www.oil.com to www.test.com/abc but I dont want www.oil.com/ger to re-direct
Here is what I've been trying to use but when I ...
Joel_Moses
Apr 01, 2011Nimbostratus
I've updated the rule above.
@Jason: Most browsers will convert the Host: header to lowercase if the user specifies it in mixed or uppercase in the Address bar -- but not all do. And if you look at RFC-2396 (URI specifications), it's totally silent on case conversion in the authority section of a URI (section 3.2) but explicitly states it in the scheme section (section 3.2)... and then goes on in section 6 (URI normalization) to describe an authority "host" as merely "equivalent" when mixed case but does not _require_ it to be normalized.
Which is why I've found plenty of tools that will happily set a Host header with mixed case! Some web-crawlers, for example. Dang "standards"...
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