Re: HTTP response version, again
Bob Jernigan (jern@spaceaix.jhuapl.edu)
Mon, 30 Dec 1996 13:11:10 -0500 (EST)
Abigail wrote:
>
> That's very interesting... you log and study all the requests your
> users do?
Quite often, yes.
>
> ++ And why is the reverse problem not being discussed?
> ++ I guess it must be fairly clear what should happen when a 1.1 client sends
> ++ a 1.1 header to a 1.0 server, so why not just follow that procedure for this
> ++ situation?
>
> I don't think you can reverse the situation. A client doesn't know
> which HTTP version the server uses; a server does know which version
> the client uses.
>
No, the server knows which version was in the request. Our client
issues both 0.9 and 1.0 requests, and soon 1.1, as appropriate to
the situation.
>
> Abigail
>
bob