On Sat, May 24, 2025 at 03:46:41PM -0400, James Cloos wrote:
> >>>>> "KAK" == Kirill A Korinsky <kirill@korins.ky> writes:
> 
> KAK> It is used only for CONNECT, isn???t it?
> 
> even rfc 7240, back in 2014, said:
> 
> 7240> To allow for transition to the absolute-form for all requests in some
> 7240> future version of HTTP, a server MUST accept the absolute-form in
> 7240> requests, even though HTTP/1.1 clients will only send them in
> 7240> requests to proxies.

The text you quoted is from RFC 7230 5.3.2, and _not_ from RFC 7240.