[Python-Dev] Remove HTTP 0.9 support (original) (raw)

James Y Knight foom at fuhm.net
Thu Dec 16 17:21:37 CET 2010

On Dec 16, 2010, at 3:14 AM, Senthil Kumaran wrote:

Even HTTP 0.9 says that response SHOULD start with status line, but gives a suggestion that clients can "tolerate" bad server server behaviors when they don't send the status line and in that the case response is the body.

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/Response.html So, It cannot be associated with the behavior "most webservers", back then and even more so now.

Actually no. That document is describing almost-HTTP 1.0. Here is the actual document you were looking for: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/AsImplemented.html

HTTP 0.9 had no headers, no status line, nothing but "GET $url " and a stream of data in response.

James

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