- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:52:04 +0200
- To: Geoffrey Sneddon <foolistbar@googlemail.com>
- CC: "William A. Rowe, Jr." <wrowe@rowe-clan.net>, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Geoffrey Sneddon wrote: > > On 11 Aug 2009, at 19:11, Julian Reschke wrote: > >> 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..,? > > They all support HTTP/0.9. Clients have to support HTTP/0.9 for web > compatibility (or at least those that care about web compatibility do), > primarily due to broken CGI scripts. I just tried IIS 5.1, and it responds with an HTTP/1.1 message. It really seems we're making up requirements here. BR, Julian
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