[10522] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
RE: Call for Closure - HTTP response version
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Leach)
Thu Jan 2 18:47:50 1997
From: Paul Leach <paulle@microsoft.com>
To: "'Dave Kristol'" <dmk@research.bell-labs.com>,
"'Joel N. Weber II'"
<nemo@koa.iolani.honolulu.hi.us>
Cc: "'http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com'" <http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com>,
"'www-talk@www10.w3.org'" <www-talk@www10.w3.org>
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 15:31:17 -0800
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>From: Joel N. Weber II[SMTP:nemo@koa.iolani.honolulu.hi.us]
>Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 1996 12:45 PM
>To: Dave Kristol
>Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com; www-talk@www10.w3.org
>Subject: Re: Call for Closure - HTTP response version
>
>There's no reason I see that it's nessisary to send HTTP/1.1 headers
>in response to HTTP/1.0 requests.
Yes there is. Suppose there is a 1.0 proxy in between a 1.1 client and
server -- the server definitely may want to include Cache-Control
headers to optimize the caching in the (potentially) 1.1 client, but the
server will see 1.0 in the request because of the 1.0 proxy.
Paul
