- From: Klaus Weide <kweide@tezcat.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 20:17:56 -0500 (CDT)
- To: Foteos Macrides <MACRIDES@sci.wfbr.edu>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
On Mon, 11 Aug 1997, Foteos Macrides wrote:
[about Apache 1.[23] ]
> 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.
According to the "New Features in Apache 1.2" page,
Aside from the optional proxy module (which operates as HTTP/1.0),
Apache is conditionally compliant with the HTTP/1.1 [...]
I am not sure what this means, i.e. does it still act as an HTTP/1.1
server when the proxy is used, aside from the version number question,
and as far as a client needs to know. For the concrete (although
currently rather theoretical) question about accepting chunked encoding,
would the proxy decode a request body before forwarding it.
> 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
Klaus
Received on Monday, 11 August 1997 18:20:34 UTC