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Re: RE-VERSION

From: Klaus Weide <kweide@tezcat.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 15:57:27 -0500 (CDT)
To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@kiwi.ics.uci.edu>
Cc: HTTP Working Group <http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Message-Id: <Pine.SUN.3.95.970810155127.27651D-100000@xochi.tezcat.com>
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On Sat, 9 Aug 1997, Roy T. Fielding wrote:

> The major version number indicates the message format, which is the
> case and has always been the case.  Look at an HTTP/1.1 message (any
> valid message) and point out the part which is not valid HTTP/1.0
> other than the HTTP-version field.

A valid HTTP/1.1 request message with an entity and a "Transfer-Encoding:
chunked" header (and therefore without a content-length) is not a valid 
HTTP/1.0 request, according to RFC 1945 7.2.2.

   Klaus
Received on Sunday, 10 August 1997 13:58:25 UTC

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