On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 20:38 -0400, Robert Sayre wrote:
>
> Does anyone think mandatory-to-implement authentication schemes or
> transport-layer security mechanisms will be helpful and realistic?
No: Lots of folk started offering HTTP/1.1 in their version line long
before they were even vaguely conformant, and new implementations still
show up with plenty of bugs (we ran into one just this month in fact).
I think that most existing implementations would just ignore it.
-Rob
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