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

Glenn Linderman v+python at g.nevcal.com
Wed Dec 15 21:58:51 CET 2010

On 12/15/2010 10:39 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

Hello,

I would like to remove HTTP 0.9 support from http.client and http.server. I've opened an issue at http://bugs.python.org/issue10711 for that. Would anyone think it's a bad idea? (HTTP 1.0 was devised in 1996)

Please address the following comment from the server.py source:

 # The default request version.  This only affects responses up until
 # the point where the request line is parsed, so it mainly decides what
 # the client gets back when sending a malformed request line.
 # Most web servers default to HTTP 0.9, i.e. don't send a status line.
 default_request_version = "HTTP/0.9"

I realize this is a somewhat obscure point, and in general, if your interest in http.client and http.server implies that some of the many outstanding bug reports for that code will get resolved, I have no concern for dropping support for HTTP 0.9 protocol, other than the above.

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