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

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Thu Dec 16 15:23:05 CET 2010

On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 07:42:08 +0100 André Malo <nd at perlig.de> wrote:

* 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) HTTP/0.9 support is still recommended (RFC 2616 is from 1999, but still current). I'm wondering, why you would consider touching that at all. Is it broken? Does it stand in the way of anything? If not, why throw away a feature?

Well, it complicates maintenance and makes fixing issues such as http://bugs.python.org/issue6791 less likely.

Note that the patch still accepts servers and clients which advertise themselves as 0.9 (using "HTTP/0.9" as a version string). It just removes support for the style of "simple response" without headers that 0.9 allowed.

Regards

Antoine.

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