Re: :scheme, was: consensus on :query ?

• From: Martin Nilsson <nilsson@opera.com>
• Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 14:34:48 +0200
• To: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
• Message-ID: <op.xjh48afxiw9drz@uranium>

On Thu, 24 Jul 2014 07:19:50 +0200, Zhong Yu <zhong.j.yu@gmail.com> wrote:

> There is an unofficial header "X-Forwarded-Proto" to record the
> upstream scheme, which the server should take into account when it's
> present (e.g. for Request.isSecure() API). However it is very unclear,
> from reading proxy/load-balancer documents, how would the header
> record multiple entries, and how are these entries corresponding to
> entries in the "X-Forwarded-For" header.

The Forwarded header (RFC 7239) combines the different X-Forwarded-*  
headers into one list to keep them synchronized.

/Martin Nilsson

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