Re: HTTP/1.0 Draft 3 defines both 0.9 and 1.0 ?

>  Who needs a formal spec for HTTP/0.9 anyway, whose major
> version number looks very much like a pre-release ?

HTTP 0.9 still has a few virtues, one of which is that minimal
support for it can be hacked into the gopher protocol
allowing gopher to www links that a web client can follow.
So it does still see some real use.    

Providing a specfication for HTTP 0.9 isn't "costing" 
the working group much.

-- 
    Albert Lunde                      Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu

Received on Monday, 18 September 1995 05:56:06 UTC