- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:11:54 +0200
- To: "William A. Rowe, Jr." <wrowe@rowe-clan.net>
- CC: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > ... > The assumption that HTTP/0.9 should be understood shouldn't be removed > until HTTP/1.2, I'd expect? Surely there are many slim clients that > rely on trivial http: requests, even today. Really? What's the situation for today's servers, such as recent httpds, IIS, Tomcat..,? > The date shouldn't be changed, but you are right that it makes little > sense in 2616bis... what about > > It is worth noting that, at the time RFC2616 was composed (1996), we would > expect commercial HTTP/1.1 servers to: > > ... s/we would expect/we did expect/ In which case the reader will ask: "and as of 2009?" > And that leaves the compatibility sentiment without suggesting it applies > to 2009, or adding new editorial comment about 0.9/1.0 support. > > WDYT? It appears you're trying to avoid the question what we expect as of *2009*, and that's really what the reader would want to know (me thinks). BR, Julian
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