Re: About that Host: header....

Koen Holtman (koen@win.tue.nl)
Tue, 19 Mar 1996 17:50:41 +0100 (MET)


Ari Luotonen:
>> There was a statement by Ari Luotonen at the IETF meeting that he
>> believed that solution 2) to be unacceptable to Netscape.  Ari, is
>> this true now that you've had time to think about it?  Paul, can you
>> see what Microsoft's opinion on this topic is?
>
>Yes, 2 is unacceptable.  We'd be breaking the entire universe, or
>making an ugly kludge if we then require a retry with 1.0 if and when
>the server doesn't accept the 1.1 request.

I too find that 2 is unacceptable.  Protocol easthetics is not nearly
good enough a reason to break compatibility on such a fundamental
level.

>Ari Luotonen				ari@netscape.com

Koen.