The Request-URI is a Uniform Resource Identifier to identify the resource upon which the request should be applied.
There are 4 types of options available for the request uri depending on the nature of the request -
- "*" = request does not apply to a particular resource
- absoluteURI = when the request is being made to a proxy
- abs_path = to identify a resource on an origin server or gateway.
- authority = only used by the CONNECT method