- From: John Franks <john@math.nwu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 14:08:06 -0500 (CDT)
- To: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, Koen Holtman wrote: > John Franks: > > > >I hope I am wrong, but we seem to have painted ourselves in a corner > >here. On the one hand we have decided that the client's version > >should not be communicated to the origin server when there are proxies > >(all version information is hop-by-hop). > > [...], we have the Via header for this. > You are correct the Via header should provide end-to-end version information to the origin server. The origin server can simply not send 303 or 307 to end clients which support HTTP/1.0. I am glad my concern was unfounded. John Franks Dept of Math. Northwestern University john@math.nwu.edu
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