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

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

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.

HTTP/0.9 has some limitations that I'm sure the W3 author was not
happy with.

Hm.

What happens when you "telnet host.name 80" to that host, then type
"HEAD / HTTP/1.0" followed by two returns?

kai
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