- From: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>
- Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 21:30:46 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: John Franks <john@math.nwu.edu>
- Cc: koen@win.tue.nl, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
John Franks: > >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. Just to avoid any confusion: In my original message, I went on to explain that an origin server *could* happily send 303 or 307 to a 1.0 client, at least when redirecting to a GET request. I think that most of the time, the server can get away with not looking at the Via header at all. >John Franks Dept of Math. Northwestern University > john@math.nwu.edu Koen.
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