New (be)req fields: path scheme and authority

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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In message <CABoVN9B6Nx4m0OiNMZ+dBOwLcBwJY4xwYzwPR8QUhWhjC+KJ5A at mail.gmail.com>
, Dridi Boukelmoune writes:

>The proposal is to have new request fields:
>- req.path (the absolute path)
>- req.host (the virtual host)
>- req.authority

Doing this opens various cans of worms.  For instance, if you change
req.path, does req.url also change automatically ?

And as a general principle, I'd prefer to push "text-processing"
like this into VMODs if at all possible.

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