- From: Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 17:24:27 -0800 (PST)
- To: Ari Luotonen <luotonen@netscape.com>
- Cc: montulli@mozilla.com, masinter@parc.xerox.com, ietf-lists@proper.com, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
On Mon, 13 Nov 1995, Ari Luotonen wrote: > > > Unfortunately, this isn't true. The rule is: if you see a response code > > that you don't understand, you must treat it as if the code was <N>00, > > where <N> is the first character of the response code. Thus, a conformant > > HTTP/1.0 system should treat a code '205' as code '200'. > > Nevertheless, the current practice in proxies is to be safe and not > cache anything that isn't 200. So it will be backwords compatible > with existing implementations. In that case, the HTTP/1.0 spec is incorrect, and must be changed, either to put in a special case for 2XX series results; the general case is still needed as it has been used in several places. Simon
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