On Thu, 25 Aug 2016, Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa wrote:

> Actually, OPTIONS is very interesting method. Doing this without proxy is
> "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.1". ​According to
> ​http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7230#section-5.3.4, when we perform
> server-wide via HTTP/1 proxy, we send "OPTIONS http://example.org HTTP/1.1".
> Watch out for the absence of last "/". This is critical. Adding "/" means
> OPTIONS request to "/", which is not server-wide request.

Very good point! That could possibly count as another argument for an option
like --strip-the-initial-slash-from-the-request-path and then have it strip
(or not add) the trailing slash to the host name there.

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se

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