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Re: Question about proxies forwarding HTTP/1.0 responses

From: patrick mcmanus <mcmanus@ducksong.com>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 12:38:54 -0400
To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Cc: Alex Rousskov <rousskov@measurement-factory.com>, HTTP working group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Message-Id: <1085675934.30078.4.camel@mcmanus.datapower.com> 


> Does announcing HTTP/1.1 actually buy you anything at all?

It can get you chunked responses.. if the server is dynamically
generating the response your alternatives under HTTP/1.0 cost you either
  a] latency while the server buffers or
  b] the loss of a persistent connection

it's not much, but it is something.
Received on Thursday, 27 May 2004 12:39:02 GMT

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