Re: p1: Receiving a higher minor HTTP version number

On 20/04/2013, at 4:29 PM, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 02:07:17PM +1000, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>> I don't see anything in p1 2.6 Protocol Versioning that explicitly says an
>> implementation ought to accept a message that has the same major version
>> number it implements, but a higher minor version number.
>> 
>> I think we need to spell this out, because IME some servers do error out on
>> (for example) a HTTP/1.2 request.
> 
> Makes sense but I'm not sure that these implementations will change for
> this these days anyway, with 2.0 coming. Also we have seen with the
> 1.0->1.1 transition that the minor change was not that seemless (specifically
> due to persistent conns).


Yeah, if this is uncontroversial, I can see adding a sentence or two (maybe with a requirement); if not, it's probably not worth the time.

Cheers,

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Received on Saturday, 20 April 2013 06:30:46 UTC