- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 09:26:42 PDT
- To: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
there are many more elegant ways to distinguish between old and new versions of user-written scripts, too, but my point was to counter the claim that it was _impossible_, not to invent an elegant possibility. In general, if there are going to be any changes are bug fixes, we have to deal with scripts that were written against older specs. There are ".asis" CERN server scripts that attempt to emit not just the body and a few directives but the entire HTTP response. Clearly, if those scripts are not rewritten but aren't conformant, they can't be called HTTP. So at some point you _must_ distinguish scripts (and servers) by their version, and either label older scripts as "not HTTP/1.x" or else patch up their output. Larry
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