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Re: Call for Closure - HTTP response version
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Kristol)
Tue Dec 31 16:26:05 1996
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 96 16:10:09 EST
From: dmk@research.bell-labs.com (Dave Kristol)
To: nemo@koa.iolani.honolulu.hi.us
Cc: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com, www-talk@www10.w3.org
> From dmk Tue Dec 31 15:53:12 1996
> Resent-Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 20:48:33 GMT
> Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 10:45:13 -1000 (HST)
"Joel N. Weber II" <nemo@koa.iolani.honolulu.hi.us> writes:
> On Tue, 31 Dec 1996, Dave Kristol wrote:
>
> > 1) The HTTP/1.1 draft is clear about which HTTP/1.1 headers cannot be
> > sent to HTTP/1.0 clients.
> >
> > 2) If an HTTP/1.1 server sends a response labeled as HTTP/1.1, but with
> > only HTTP/1.0-compatible headers, HTTP/1.0 clients will understand it.
> > (There are a few known exceptions.)
>
> The way GNU E-scape is written right now, it will send an HTTP/1.0 request.
> If the first line it gets back contains HTTP/1.0, it treats the response
> as an HTTP/1.0 response. Otherwise, it assumes that it's talking to
> an HTTP/0.9 server, and retries the request as HTTP/0.9
>
> I will change it to react correctly to HTTP/1.x responses if that's
> what is decided is the correct answer. I haven't even made a prerelease
> available to others yet, so there's plenty of time for the decission
> to be made.
The decision your code makes should not be between "HTTP/1.0" and
other, but between "HTTP/1.*" and other. Regardless of the choice
arrived at by the working group concerning version number, what you
have now is wrong.
Dave Kristol
