RE: Microsoft HTTP 1.1 Conformance?

> From: John C. Mallery 

> I'm wondering if the microsoft browsers are going 
> backwards on http 1,1
> conformance, just as they lost digest authentication from 
> IE 3 in later
> releases.

No, I believe that they just changed the configurability of it.

IE5 supports 1.1, and supports Digest (rfc2617).

> Can anybody shed some light precisely what the status of 
> IE's conformance
> to HTTP 1.1 is?

Far far better than Netscape, which doesn't do 1.1 at all.