[Gnash-dev] non-conformance to HTTP standards

[Eric Hughes]

Folks:

This is more of a notice that a request for guidance.  Feel free to chime 
in, though, if you care to.

I've been working on the parsers for HTTP.  I've found what I consider 
something completely harebrained in the HTTP/1.1 standard, so I decided to 
violate it.  You may find full details here:
        http://gnashdev.org/wiki/index.php/HTTP_Standards

To summarize, according to standards, a GET request cannot have a relative 
URL reference, which makes the following example malformed:
	GET 
/software/gnash/tests/flvplayer2.swf?file=http://localhost:4080/software/gnash/tests/lulutest.flv 
HTTP/1.1
I've got to imagine that these kinds of requests are generated all the 
time, and it seems screw-loose to reject them.

Eric