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Re: 301/302

From: John Franks <john@math.nwu.edu>
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 08:28:42 -0500 (CDT)
To: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Message-Id: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970801082700.20125A-100000@hopf.math.nwu.edu>
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On Fri, 1 Aug 1997, Ben Laurie wrote:

> 
> 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.
> 

The current (widely deployed) version of CGI is called version 1.1.
This has nothing to do with HTTP versions.  Thus something other
than "CGI-Version: 1.1" would be advisable to avoid confusion.

John Franks 	Dept of Math. Northwestern University
		john@math.nwu.edu
Received on Friday, 1 August 1997 06:30:06 UTC

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