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.