[Zope-dev] Zope as a proxy - cache server

[Sam Gendler]

> 
> Currently, ZServer adhers closely to the HTTP RFC by allowing only
> requests of the form '[METHOD] [/path] HTTP/[version]'. Proxy requests
> are of the form '[METHOD] [Full URL] HTTP/[version]', where [Full URL]
> is something like http://a.host.address/path.

Oops.  The current HTTP protocol (1.1) specifically states that a server
MUST be able to accept a fully qualified URL (this is in an attempt to
get clients across the internet to STOP sending just the path in the
request).

--sam