[issue21472] Fix wsgiref handling of absolute HTTP Request-URI

Robert Collins added the comment: Oh, also - while its tempting to say that it doesn't matter whether we take the urls host portion, or the host header or the server name - it does. Deployments that look like: LB/Firewall <-> backend container -> WSGI app are likely to have assumptions within

[issue21472] Fix wsgiref handling of absolute HTTP Request-URI

Robert Collins added the comment: FWIW we probably need to capture the original unaltered URL somewhere, but also ensure that PATH_INFO is always a relative path. One should be able to implement a proxy in WSGI (because thats just another specialised app), and doing that today requires special

[issue21472] Fix wsgiref handling of absolute HTTP Request-URI

mouad added the comment: Hi Guido, If I understand this correctly, the HOST header was added only in HTTP1.1 and setting the absolute URI was the right behavior client should follow if they are behind a proxy for HTTP1.0, but the same behavior was kept in HTTP1.1 for backward compatibility.

[issue21472] Fix wsgiref handling of absolute HTTP Request-URI

Guido van Rossum added the comment: Wow. This is interesting. I thought that absolute URL support was only for proxies, but the spec you quote says clearly it should be supported as a transition towards always specifying the full URL. I guess they want to get rid of the Host: header? In any c

[issue21472] Fix wsgiref handling of absolute HTTP Request-URI

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[issue21472] Fix wsgiref handling of absolute HTTP Request-URI

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[issue21472] Fix wsgiref handling of absolute HTTP Request-URI

New submission from mouad: Hi, As most of you know, working behind a HTTP proxy raise all this corner cases that no one think about until he has to, one of them i had to deal with some months ago is absolute request URI in HTTP request, that some client will send when they detect that they ar