- From: Bob Jernigan <jern@spaceaix.jhuapl.edu>
- Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 13:11:10 -0500 (EST)
- To: abigail@ny.fnx.com
- Cc: bwinton@incontext.ca, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Abigail wrote: > > That's very interesting... you log and study all the requests your > users do? Quite often, yes. > > ++ And why is the reverse problem not being discussed? > ++ I guess it must be fairly clear what should happen when a 1.1 client sends > ++ a 1.1 header to a 1.0 server, so why not just follow that procedure for this > ++ situation? > > I don't think you can reverse the situation. A client doesn't know > which HTTP version the server uses; a server does know which version > the client uses. > No, the server knows which version was in the request. Our client issues both 0.9 and 1.0 requests, and soon 1.1, as appropriate to the situation. > > Abigail > bob
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