- From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 19:27:28 +0100
- To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Larry Masinter wrote: > > there are many more elegant ways to distinguish between > old and new versions of user-written scripts, too, but > my point was to counter the claim that it was _impossible_, > not to invent an elegant possibility. Fair enough, though I don't think I made the claim that it was impossible, merely that CGI was broken because we have to invent something outside it to deal with the problem. > In general, if there are going to be any changes are > bug fixes, we have to deal with scripts that were written > against older specs. There are ".asis" CERN server scripts > that attempt to emit not just the body and a few directives > but the entire HTTP response. Clearly, if those scripts > are not rewritten but aren't conformant, they can't be > called HTTP. So at some point you _must_ distinguish scripts > (and servers) by their version, and either label older > scripts as "not HTTP/1.x" or else patch up their output. Surely if one never changes the semantics of existing headers it is not necessary to know which version is being used? Cheers, Ben. -- Ben Laurie Phone: +44 (181) 994 6435 Email: ben@algroup.co.uk Freelance Consultant and Fax: +44 (181) 994 6472 Technical Director URL: http://www.algroup.co.uk/Apache-SSL A.L. Digital Ltd, Apache Group member (http://www.apache.org) London, England. Apache-SSL author
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