- From: Chuck Shotton <cshotton@biap.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 18:21:47 -0500
- To: Lou Montulli <montulli@mozilla.com>
- Cc: Lou Montulli <montulli@mozilla.com>, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
At 1:11 PM 8/15/95, Lou Montulli wrote:
>> >I have tested this change against the Netscape, NCSA, CERN and Apache
>> >servers and all of them ignore the addition of size=SIZE, so we
>> >can add this addition without fear of backwards compatibility concerns.
>>
>> This will break MacHTTP and WebSTAR. According to the last published
>> "standard", the if-modified-since header field's argument (the date) is
>> terminated with an end of line sequence. This is how it's currently parsed
>> in both of those servers. Given the large installed base of these servers,
>> it'd be nice to find an alternate solution.
>
>Are you sure it will break MacHTTP and WebSTAR, or do you just assume it
>will?
Given that I'm the author, I'm pretty sure. :)
> If it does, these servers are not following the spec. HTTP
>headers are MIME headers, and MIME headers can always be followed by
>a semi-colon and additional attributes. If they do break with the
>new header then we will need to figure out how many are out there and
>weather there are enough to make a significant difference in the
>decision.
Well, according to the last 2 Web surveys, it's either the #2 or #3 server
in terms of installed base (depending on survey), along with NCSA and CERN
httpd. I think we need to worry about the installed base.
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Received on Tuesday, 15 August 1995 16:23:19 UTC