Re: Minimum HTTP version (was: Accept-Ranges: the controversy that wouldn't die) from Roy T. Fielding on 1996-06-06 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from April to June 1996)

From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@liege.ICS.UCI.EDU>
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1996 10:26:43 -0700
To: Shel Kaphan <sjk@amazon.com>
Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Message-Id: <9606061026.aa09347@paris.ics.uci.edu>

> It would, if it were there in earlier versions of the protocol.  In
> 1.0 all you get is mashed User-Agent headers and the occasional
> Forwarded header, if you're lucky. It would be far more reliable to
> make it mandatory for 1.1 servers to "report on their neighbors".

Please read the description of the Via header field.  It does that.


 ...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/

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