- From: Geoffrey Sneddon <foolistbar@googlemail.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:27:04 +0200
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: "William A. Rowe, Jr." <wrowe@rowe-clan.net>, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On 11 Aug 2009, at 19:11, Julian Reschke wrote: > William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: >> ... >> The assumption that HTTP/0.9 should be understood shouldn't be >> removed >> until HTTP/1.2, I'd expect? Surely there are many slim clients that >> rely on trivial http: requests, even today. > > Really? > > What's the situation for today's servers, such as recent httpds, > IIS, Tomcat..,? They all support HTTP/0.9. Clients have to support HTTP/0.9 for web compatibility (or at least those that care about web compatibility do), primarily due to broken CGI scripts. -- Geoffrey Sneddon
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