- From: Dmitry Beransky <dberansky@ucsd.edu>
- Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 13:09:11 -0800
- To: www-talk@w3.org
At 12:46 PM 2/9/00 , Grahame Grieve wrote:
>No there is no way. Mainly because it doesn't make sense. The headers are
>sent to tell you about the entity. it's not too hard to parse the headers
>properly.
Are you sure? Section 6 of RFC 1945 says:
Response = Simple-Response | Full-Response
Simple-Response = [ Entity-Body ]
Full-Response = Status-Line ; Section 6.1
*( General-Header ; Section 4.3
| Response-Header ; Section 6.2
| Entity-Header ) ; Section 7.1
CRLF
[ Entity-Body ] ; Section 7.2
A Simple-Response should only be sent in response to an HTTP/0.9
Simple-Request or if the server only supports the more limited HTTP/0.9
protocol. If a client sends an HTTP/1.0 Full-Request and receives a
response that does not begin with a Status-Line, it should assume that the
response is a Simple-Response and parse it accordingly. Note that the
Simple-Response consists only of the entity body and is terminated by the
server closing the connection.
Where Simple-Request is defined as "Simple-Request = "GET" SP Request-URI CRLF"
It sounds like if you'd send a HTTP/0.9 type request to a server, it should
reply only with an entity body.
Cheers
Dmitry
Received on Wednesday, 9 February 2000 16:05:01 UTC