- From: Foteos Macrides <MACRIDES@sci.wfbr.edu>
- Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 17:11:56 -0500 (EST)
- To: kweide@tezcat.com
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Klaus Weide <kweide@tezcat.com> wrote: >[...] >This leads to another question. Does the proposed OPTIONS probe >actually *work* for an Apache/1.[23]* server acting as proxy? As Roy >has revealed Apache-as-proxy is one of the cases where HTTP/1.1 >response status is improperly forwarded. I suspect (but cannot test) >that the same server would respond as HTTP/1.1 when checked with >OPTIONS, making the probe worthless. Ah! An implementation issue, not a terminology issue. :) It *is* an HTTP/1.1 server, so one would not predict a serious problem during this transition, just as the shortcut had no apparent problem for the old HTTP/1.0 proxies during the HTTP/0.9 -> HTTP/1.0 transition. It would become a problem for an HTTP/1.1 -> HTTP/1.2 transition. But one can also predict that it will be fixed ASAP, and hopefully the current Apache servers will all have been replaced by then. :) By "serious" problem I mean that sharing of worthwhile information fails (just to be clear about my terminology :). Fote ========================================================================= Foteos Macrides Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research MACRIDES@SCI.WFBR.EDU 222 Maple Avenue, Shrewsbury, MA 01545 =========================================================================
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