- From: Tom Tromey <tromey@creche.cygnus.com>
- Date: 21 Oct 1996 10:06:45 -0600
- To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Cc: frystyk@w3.org, jcma@ai.mit.edu, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com, w3c-http@w3.org
Larry> On a related issue, I'm concerned about the possibility that a Larry> single server might 'downgrade' depending on the URL rather Larry> than the version of the requestor: I think there are clients Larry> that presume the version of subsequent responses based on the Larry> version of previous responses. I believe such servers are implicitly allowed by the definition of "server": Likewise, any server may act as an origin server, proxy, gateway, or tunnel, switching behavior based on the nature of each request. Imagine a proxy server that switches to tunneling behavior when proxying for a 1.0 server, but is 1.1 otherwise. However, the draft says this: Clients SHOULD remember the version number of at least the most recently used server I don't think the version number of the server is actually knowable; instead all a client can discover is the version number the server used on the most recent request. Tom -- tromey@cygnus.com Member, League for Programming Freedom
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