- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Nov 1994 12:26:19 PST
- To: cshotton@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
> Changing the request syntax to include a full URL will preclude NEW clients > being able to talk to OLD servers. Are you really proposing that HTTP/2.0 be kept compatible with HTTP/1.0 such that old HTTP/1.0 servers could ignore the "HTTP/2.0" in the GET request and respond as if it were a HTTP/1.0 request? Any protocol change for HTTP will have to be staged by first getting most of the servers to upgrade. If there are no changes proposed that would actually require some different response, then why bother calling it 'HTTP/2.0' at all? Actually, this gets me to a point where I want to stop talking about HTTP/2.0 at *all*: we need a specification/standard for HTTP/1.0, as an IETF RFC, either an "informational" one or as a "draft standard". Is anyone willing to volunteer to put such a beast together?
Received on Thursday, 17 November 1994 12:28:09 UTC