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Re: 301/302

From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 00:04:18 PDT
Message-Id: <33E18A72.466F@parc.xerox.com>
To: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
X-Mailing-List: <http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com> archive/latest/4050
> 
> Surely if one never changes the semantics of existing headers it is not
> necessary to know which version is being used?

No; we may not change the semantics of headers, but we're changing
the requirements for what it means to be 1.1 compliant, vs. 1.0.
If you don't know that you're 1.1 compliant -- that your script
satisfies all of the requirements that are MUST for 1.1, then you
need to label the response as 1.0.
Received on Friday, 1 August 1997 00:39:39 UTC

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