Re: [hybi] Last Call: <draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt> (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard

Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org> Mon, 25 July 2011 04:36 UTC

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Subject: Re: [hybi] Last Call: <draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt> (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard
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In message <3BC48562-6459-4FB9-9806-731AF87FE027@network-heretics.com>, Keith M
oore writes:
> On Jul 24, 2011, at 11:21 PM, Mark Andrews wrote:
> 
> >>> How do you solve the problem of hosting just "http://example.com/"
> >>> on "s1.joes-web-service.com" and not redirect everything else at
> >>> example.com?  People have been complaining about this for about as
> >>> long as the web has existed.
> >>=20
> >> Well, in a way, that's what NAPTR was for.  All of the UR
> >> i resolution mechanisms (equally applicable to DNS-based URIs) that =
> were =3D
> >> developed and never really used grew out of the original realization =
> in =3D
> >> the early 1990s that CERN could stop hosting the original web pages =
> if =3D
> >> it wanted to, and there was no way to keep those links from going =
> stale.
> >=20
> > NAPTR is not defined for HTTP.
> > SRV is not defined for HTTP.
> >=20
> >> The problem never went away, but the DNS-based solutions were defined =
> a =3D
> >> long time ago and never used.
> >=20
> > No.  It was explitly NOT defined.
> 
> Ok, fair enough.   Those of us who were working on the DNS-based URI =
> resolution mechanisms realized that they could be applied to http URIs =
> in addition to almost anything else (NAPTR is incredibly flexible if you =
> don't mind doing lots of DNS lookups).  But they were never formally =
> adopted.
> 
> But if you really want to use DNS to do redirects for http: URIs (or for =
> that matter ws: URIs or almost any other kind of URI), NAPTR was =
> tailor-made to do that.  SRV was not.

"_http._tcp.example.com SRV 100 0 80 <server>" is not a redirect.
The http client still issues "Host: example.com" not "Host: <server>".
If you want to do DNS level redirect of "www.example.com" to
"example.com" then NAPTR would be the way to do that and the http
client issues "Host: example.com" instead of "Host: www.example.com".

If web browers were using CNAME records correctly, i.e. as aliases,
then they would be treated as a DNS level redirect not as "return
the address of CNAME target but otherwise ignore that this is a
alias".  Doing this has all sorts if implications.  A lot of the
IDN issues are a direct result of HTTP clients/adminstrators abusing
CNAME.

Mark
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