- From: Alexei Kosut <akosut@nueva.pvt.k12.ca.us>
- Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 11:39:03 -0800 (PST)
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU>
- Cc: Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
On Sat, 23 Mar 1996, Roy T. Fielding wrote: > Hmmmm, not quite. It is okay for the WG to propose an incompatible change > to the HTTP protocol for the proposed standard. It is not okay to do so > without indicating it through a change to the HTTP major protocol version > number. The ability of a client to send a full URL to the origin server > is an incompatible change, even when it is optional. I don't see this as an incompatible change, assuming wording is put into the spec along the lines of the following: "A client may not send request to an HTTP server using a full URL in the request until it has determined that the server is compatible with HTTP/1.1 or later." If it is required that HTTP/1.1 servers support full URL requests, then once a client has sent a partial URL request to a server, and gotten back a response tagged with "HTTP/1.1", it seems to me that there is no reason that the next request to that server cannot be in full URL form. Am I missing something (most likely)? --// Alexei Kosut // <akosut@nueva.pvt.k12.ca.us> // Lefler on IRC --// -----------------// <http://www.nueva.pvt.k12.ca.us/~akosut> -------// "To get the full effect of Pat Buchanan's speeches, they should be read in the original German." //--------------------------------------
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