Server capabilities investigation

From: Hadmut Danisch <danisch@ira.uka.de> Date: Wed, 9 Aug 1995 14:14:28 +0200 Message-Id: <9508091214.AA20996@elysion.iaks.ira.uka.de> To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com · This archive was generated by hypermail pre-2.1.9 : Wednesday, 24 September 2003 06:31:24 EDT

What is the best way for a http client to find out which
protocols a certain server is able to understand.

A server may be able to speak several protocols as
http/0.9, http/1.0 , shttp/1.1, crypto-http/33.3, 
super-http/0.35, extra-http/3.9 and other phantastic protocols.

Shouldn't there be a protocol independent command to retrieve a list of
the protocols the server is able to understand?

Hadmut