- From: Ben Laurie <ben@gonzo.ben.algroup.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 08:12:18 +0000 (GMT)
- To: Alexei Kosut <akosut@nueva.pvt.k12.ca.us>
- Cc: ben@algroup.co.uk, dwm@xpasc.com, S.N.Brodie@ecs.soton.ac.uk, brian@organic.com, hedlund@best.com, dmk@research.bell-labs.com, www-talk@www10.w3.org, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Alexei Kosut wrote: > > On Sat, 21 Dec 1996, Ben Laurie wrote: > > > It also seems to me that the spec is not clear on this issue. There is clear > > intent in HTTP/1.1, in that the word "major" was added to the version of > > the response, but, AFAICS, no clear requirement to respond either 1.0 or 1.1 to > > a 1.0 request. Since a requirement of the spec is to be liberal in what is > > accepted, it seems to me that the correct interpretation of the spec is that > > a 1.1 reponse to a 1.0 request is permitted. > > > > I forget where we are wrt modifications to the spec. It seems to me that a > > modification should be made to clarify this point, whichever way it goes. > > IMHO, I don't think it's particuarly neccessary for the spec to > specify how a HTTP/1.1 server has to respond to HTTP/1.0 requests. As > was pointed out, even if the spec did say that it had to respond with > HTTP/1.1, that doesn't mean anything, because in fact when a HTTP/1.0 > request came in, the server could just use HTTP/1.0 semantics and > would be perfectly within its rights to respond with HTTP/1.0. I don't > think it's neccessary to specific one over the other - both can > coexist perfectly well. (that being said, I do favor responding to > HTTP/1.0 with HTTP/1.1). > > However, it seems certainly desirable to add some language to the spec > along the lines of "if a message of a version with a known major > number, but an unknown minor number is received (e.g., if a HTTP/1.0 > client recieves a HTTP/1.1 response, or a HTTP/1.2 server receives a > HTTP/1.7 request), it should be treated as if it was a request > equivilent to the highest minor number in that major version that is > supported." Agreed. Except we should spell equivalent correctly ;-) Cheers, Ben. -- Ben Laurie Phone: +44 (181) 994 6435 Email: ben@algroup.co.uk Freelance Consultant and Fax: +44 (181) 994 6472 Technical Director URL: http://www.algroup.co.uk/Apache-SSL A.L. Digital Ltd, Apache Group member (http://www.apache.org) London, England. Apache-SSL author
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