- From: Dave Kristol <dmk@bell-labs.com>
- Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 15:44:44 -0400
- To: John Franks <john@math.nwu.edu>
- Cc: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
John Franks wrote: > [in response to Koen Holtman] > 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. Am I missing something here? If there are HTTP/1.0 proxies along the path from UA to origin server, and, especially, if the first proxy beyond the UA is HTTP/1.0, the Via header won't have all the information you need, because the HTTP/1.0 proxy won't have added it. Dave Kristol
Received on Monday, 8 September 1997 12:49:48 UTC