- From: Jeffrey Mogul <mogul@pa.dec.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Mar 98 10:38:38 PST
- To: rlgray@us.ibm.com
- Cc: HTTP Working Group <http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com>
Is there a document that describes HTTP/0.9?
What I am particularly interested in is the format of the request
line (there were no headers, right?).
RFC1945 documents HTTP/0.9. The format of the request is (was):
Simple-Request = "GET" SP Request-URI CRLF
and the response format was:
Simple-Response = [ Entity-Body ]
with no version numbers, no response status line, and no request or
response headers.
Based on my reading of some server source code, I believe that instead
of a Content-Type response header, the older browsers apparently
understood a tag like <PLAINTEXT> to indicate non-HTML responses.
(Someone will no doubt correct me if I'm wrong.)
-Jeff
Received on Tuesday, 24 March 1998 10:43:46 UTC