- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 18:36:07 -0800
- To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
For the sake of completeness and the future of HTTP, I would like to
propose a new server error code for indicating that the server does
not support the HTTP protocol version received in the request message.
505 HTTP Version Not Supported
The server does not support, or refuses to support, the HTTP protocol
version that was used in the request message. The server is
indicating that it is unable or unwilling to complete the request
using the same major version as the client, as described in
Section 3.1, other than with this error message. The response should
contain an entity describing why that version is not supported and
what other protocols are supported by that server.
Please note that, among other things, this allows future applications
to cease support for older protocols and yet do so in a way that is
meaningful to older clients.
...Roy T. Fielding
Department of Information & Computer Science (fielding@ics.uci.edu)
University of California, Irvine, CA 92717-3425 fax:+1(714)824-4056
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/
Received on Tuesday, 2 April 1996 18:55:20 UTC