- From: Dan Winship <dan.winship@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:20:55 -0400
- To: "William A. Rowe, Jr." <wrowe@rowe-clan.net>
- CC: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On 08/11/2009 12:29 PM, 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. HTTP/0.9 is not useful for programmatic stuff, because you don't get back a status code, so you can't easily know whether the thing you got back is the thing you were looking for, or an error message. Trivial clients use HTTP/1.0 (plus the Host header), which is reasonably simple to implement if you're only doing something trivial. (HTTP/1.1 is complicated even for trivial requests, because there's no way to prevent the server from using chunked encoding in the response, or sending an unsolicited "100 Continue", etc.) -- Dan
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