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Re: 301/302

From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 09:25:54 +0100
Message-Id: <33DEFA92.6879E1A5@algroup.co.uk>
To: Yaron Goland <yarong@microsoft.com>
Cc: 'Larry Masinter' <masinter@parc.xerox.com>, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
X-Mailing-List: <http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com> archive/latest/4006 
Yaron Goland wrote:
> 
> Scripts are deployed and they are not going to get re-written.
> 
> Servers have no mechanism for determining if a script is 1.0 or 1.1 and
> even if they did, they do not have facilities for taken any special
> action in that case.

Which is, of course, a deficiency in CGI (and related) specs. If anyone
ever gets around to sorting them out, they really ought to have a
version number somewhere in the conversation between server and script.

Cheers,

Ben.

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