- From: David Morris <dwm@xpasc.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:27:36 -0700 (PDT)
- cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
FWIW ... IIS 6.0 seems to provide the correct response for an HTTP/0.9 request. a. Responds after first CR/LF b. Has no header/status in the response Which doesn't change my mind ... 0.9 needs to leave the room. On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Julian Reschke wrote: > 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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