Re: 301/302

Larry Masinter (masinter@parc.xerox.com)
Fri, 1 Aug 1997 00:04:18 PDT


> 
> Surely if one never changes the semantics of existing headers it is not
> necessary to know which version is being used?

No; we may not change the semantics of headers, but we're changing
the requirements for what it means to be 1.1 compliant, vs. 1.0.
If you don't know that you're 1.1 compliant -- that your script
satisfies all of the requirements that are MUST for 1.1, then you
need to label the response as 1.0.