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

Senthil Kumaran orsenthil at gmail.com
Thu Dec 16 17:56:13 CET 2010

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 11:21:37AM -0500, James Y Knight 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.

Yeah. I know it was almost-HTTP 1.0, but the same docs say that if protocol version was not specified, it is assumed to be 0.9. So, I thought it was a good reference point to understand the behavior.

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.

Actually, you are right. I seems be be actual defined behavior of HTTP 0.9. As explained in that above doc and also in RFC 1945 Request section.

-- Senthil

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