- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@kiwi.ICS.UCI.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 17:57:17 -0800
- To: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@w3.org>
- Cc: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
>1) It would be unfortunate to rely on opening and closing transport >connections for terminating PEP extensions. One of the main differences >between HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1 is that you never have to close the >connection in order to resume a well-known state. The exception is the >"Upgrade" header which unfortunately only can be terminated by closing the >underlying connection. That isn't necessarily true. Upgrade allows the connection to be switched to some other connection-oriented protocol. There is nothing to stop that other protocol from defining a similar mechanism for switching back. However, that is the purview of the other ptotocol, and thus wasn't defined as part of HTTP/1.1. Cheers, ....Roy
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