- From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 10:47:45 +0100
- To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Larry Masinter wrote: > > > > > 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. OK. It still seems to me that the correct thing to do is to fix CGI. A simple thing to do would be to add a version header: CGI-Version: 1.1 Absence of the header means the script is 1.0 compliant. This is not an HTTP header - the server would strip it, I assume, and doctor other headers as needed. 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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