[10910] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: browsers & http/1.1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Slemko)
Mon Jul 21 16:10:42 1997
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 14:01:02 -0600 (MDT)
From: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>
To: Joni Barnoff <JLB@psulias.psu.edu>
Cc: www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <01ILI4QTRGAM9I4GCZ@psulias.psu.edu>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Joni Barnoff wrote:
> I'm working on a server using HTTP/1.1 protocol. I've used the server with
> the following browsers: Netscape 3.01 Gold, Netscape Communicator 4.01, and
> Internet Explorer 3.02. Although my server sends HTTP/1.1 in the header,
> the browsers respond with HTTP/1.0.
>
> Are these browsers capable of handling HTTP/1.1? If so, why don't they
No.
> respond with HTTP/1.1 in the headers? If not, are there any browsers that
> will respond to HTTP/1.1?
The only mainstream one that supports it is MSIE 4 preview 2.
Unfortunately, its HTTP/1.1 support is quite broken. Don't know of any
fundamental problems, just a couple of stupid things.
