- From: Dave Kristol <dmk@research.bell-labs.com>
- Date: Tue, 31 Dec 96 16:10:09 EST
- To: nemo@koa.iolani.honolulu.hi.us
- Cc: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com, www-talk@www10.w3.org
> From dmk Tue Dec 31 15:53:12 1996 > Resent-Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 20:48:33 GMT > Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 10:45:13 -1000 (HST) "Joel N. Weber II" <nemo@koa.iolani.honolulu.hi.us> writes: > On Tue, 31 Dec 1996, Dave Kristol wrote: > > > 1) The HTTP/1.1 draft is clear about which HTTP/1.1 headers cannot be > > sent to HTTP/1.0 clients. > > > > 2) If an HTTP/1.1 server sends a response labeled as HTTP/1.1, but with > > only HTTP/1.0-compatible headers, HTTP/1.0 clients will understand it. > > (There are a few known exceptions.) > > The way GNU E-scape is written right now, it will send an HTTP/1.0 request. > If the first line it gets back contains HTTP/1.0, it treats the response > as an HTTP/1.0 response. Otherwise, it assumes that it's talking to > an HTTP/0.9 server, and retries the request as HTTP/0.9 > > I will change it to react correctly to HTTP/1.x responses if that's > what is decided is the correct answer. I haven't even made a prerelease > available to others yet, so there's plenty of time for the decission > to be made. The decision your code makes should not be between "HTTP/1.0" and other, but between "HTTP/1.*" and other. Regardless of the choice arrived at by the working group concerning version number, what you have now is wrong. Dave Kristol
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