Re: 301/302
Ben Laurie (ben@algroup.co.uk)
Wed, 30 Jul 1997 18:47:07 +0100
Larry Masinter wrote:
>
> Why, you could have different configuration directives, so that
> .cgi files would be HTTP/1.0 and .cgi11 files would be HTTP/1.1,
> or .asp would be HTTP/1.0 and .asq would be HTTP/1.1, etc.
>
> It's easy for servers to have a mechanism for determining if
> a script is 1.0 or 1.1.
True, and we could have decided that there was no point in having
version numbers in HTTP, because we could just have a naming covention
for servers, www.* == HTTP/0.9, www10.* == HTTP/1.0, www11.* ==
HTTP/1.1.
It may work, but its junk.
Cheers,
Ben.
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