- From: Nils Goroll <slink@schokola.de>
- Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 12:49:59 +0200
- To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- CC: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Hi Mark, On 10/25/12 01:56 AM, Mark Nottingham wrote: > No - HTTP/1.0 is backwards-compatible with 1.1. There is not interoperability problem, because it still works. sorry, now you've lost me. The whole point of the downgrades is corner case handling, iiuc. > --- 8< --- > 2.6. Protocol Versioning > [...] > An HTTP client MAY send a lower request version if it is known that > the server incorrectly implements the HTTP specification, but only > after the client has attempted at least one normal request and > determined from the response status or header fields (e.g., Server) > that the server improperly handles higher request versions. > --- 8< --- At any rate, I don't have any personal interest in this topic, so I'm fine with leaving it as it is. But I still believe that it would be a good idea to define the scope for downgrades as for upgrades. Thank you, Nils
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