- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 15:32:35 -0800
- To: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Koen writes:
> draft-kristol-http-state-mgmt-00 is not orthogonal to the HTTP version
> number: see section 10. Servers need the version number to know
> whether they should send an old Netscape format Set-Cookie header or a
> new HTTP/1.1 Set-Cookie header.
This won't work. For example
1.0 UA ---------> 1.1 Proxy ---------> 1.0 Origin Server
will result in a 1.1 cookie being sent to a 1.0 user agent.
The only features of HTTP that can depend on a minor version number
change are those that are interpreted by neighbors in the communication.
Other feature changes require changes to the content, such as a
different header field name.
...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 Friday, 1 March 1996 16:01:43 UTC