- From: Ari Luotonen <luotonen@neon.mcom.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 10:15:16 -0800 (PST)
- To: Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu
- Cc: fielding@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU, mfc@vnet.ibm.com, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
> > I believe proxies require Full-Requests. Ari? > > I do not believe it is possible to remove that requirement, though perhaps > > we should require that HTTP/1.0 clients never generate a Simple-Request. > > I occurs to me that one current use of the Simple Request is in the > hack that allows links to HTML documents to be served up for WWW clients > on gopher servers. These are gopher links that are defined something like: Oh 0.9 support on server side is very useful. You wouldn't believe the number of complaints I had at the time the proxy always spit out HTTP1, regardless of the request version. There are scripts/utils/wanderers/foobars that want to contact a server and not bother with parsing the header, and a Simple-Request is an easy way to get rid of the header in the first place. Every server should support both 0.9 and 1.0. Clients are another story. -- Cheers, Ari --
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