Re: HTTP/0.9 How I hate thee! ... what the...

[wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry)]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> On 28 Feb 2001, Harry Putnam wrote:
> 
> > Running CVS w3 
> 
> Where did you get the `url' package that's needed for this w3?
> 
> > I don't often browse the web with w3, mostly let it work inside gnus
> > for me or on, local disk.  Today I tried connecting to several sites
> > and get this strange, but obiously intended to be humorous message.
> > 
> >         `HTTP/0.9 How I hate thee!'
> 
> Well, you probably know that web browsers and web servers communicate
> using the HTTP protocol.  There have been different versions of that
> protocol.  The first version didn't have a number and was retroactively
> numbered 0.9, I think.  Then came HTTP/1.0 and now HTTP/1.1 is current.

There is currently a bug in the persistent-connection code for HTTP.  You
can fix this one of two ways:

1. Turn off stylesheets for now...
   (setq w3-honor-stylesheets nil)

2. Turn off HTTP/1.1 persistent connections...
   You can do this by editing the line in url-http-create-request that says
   (if proxy-obj "close" "keep-alive") to just "close" to disable ALL
   persistent connections.  This is equivalent to the old URL package, but
   will still get you chunked encoding and fun things like that.

-bp