Re: Minimum HTTP version (was: Accept-Ranges: the controversy that wouldn't die)

Roy T. Fielding writes:
 > > 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/
 > 

Duh.  Another misreading on my part.  Never mind.
I'm glad it does what I wanted it to, anyway.

--Shel

Received on Thursday, 6 June 1996 11:41:21 UTC