- From: Roy Fielding <fielding@beach.w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 15:30:26 -0400
- To: JP.Martin-Flatin@ecmwf.int
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
> This document defines both the 0.9 and 1.0 versions of the HTTP
> protocol. Applications sending Full-Request or Full-Response
> messages, as defined by this specification, must include an
> HTTP-Version of "HTTP/1.0".
>
>I think there's a mix-up in the first sentence of the last paragraph: the
>purpose of HTTP/1.0 Draft 3 is most definitely not to define HTTP/0.9. Its
>sole references to HTTP/0.9 address compatibility issues.
No, this specification does define HTTP/0.9. It is, in fact,
the only formal definition of HTTP/0.9. It's "purpose" is an entirely
separate matter which is not relevant to that sentence.
....Roy T. Fielding Department of ICS, University of California, Irvine USA
Visiting Scholar, MIT/LCS + World-Wide Web Consortium
(fielding@w3.org) (fielding@ics.uci.edu)
Received on Friday, 15 September 1995 12:33:36 UTC