- From: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>
- Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 21:50:53 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: Jeffrey Mogul <mogul@pa.dec.com>
- Cc: jcma@ai.mit.edu, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com, w3c-http@w3.org
Jeffrey Mogul: > >As for whether a server should return > (a) min(request-version, server's-highest-version) >or just > (b) server's-highest-version >I don't have a strong opinion. I don't have a strong opinion either. (b) makes for more interesting diagnostics, but that is about it. It is important to note here that, as the 1.1 spec does not tell whether to do (a) or (b) if the numbers are 1.0 and 1.1, it therefore allows both. So if you are implementing a server, pick either one. If this WG were to make a definitive statement that you must either pick (a) or (b), that would amount to us updating the 1.1 spec, and we want to avoid doing that. Of course, if things break because the spec allows both (a) and (b), we will have no choice but to update the spec. We will only find out about such breakage however if some implementers do (a) while others do (b)... >-Jeff Koen.
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