- From: Shel Kaphan <sjk@amazon.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 15:47:15 -0800 (PST)
- To: cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@http-wg.uucp
Shel Kaphan writes: > If we believe interpretation A above, then a HTTP 1.0 proxy anywhere > between a HTTP 1.1 client and a HTTP 1.1 server would prevent the > server from ever being able to pass any 1.1-only headers through the > proxy to the client in either case (1) or (2). Furthermore this would > require proxies to remove 1.1 headers when responding to 1.0 clients. > So, this is pretty bad. > > If we believe interpretation A above, then, since 1.1 is supposed to ^ I meant "B" here. > be backward compatible with 1.0, if headers defined in 1.1 are left > uninterpreted (and this is the crux of the major/minor version > scheme), then it is always OK to return a normal 1.1 response to a 1.0 > request. This seems to suggest it makes sense to return a 1.1 version > number as well. > > --Shel > > --Shel
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