RE: Squid 2 - so what? ;-)

On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Nottingham, Mark (Australia) wrote:

> For me, the key points are:
>
> * HTTP 1.1 compliance (aware of Cache-Control: headers)

Speaking of which -- no version of squid I'm aware of is HTTP/0.9
compliant. This is necessary for 1.0 compliance and "expected" (in
the words of the RFC) from HTTP/1.1 servers.

   HTTP/1.0 servers must:

      o recognize the format of the Request-Line for HTTP/0.9 and
        HTTP/1.0 requests;

      o understand any valid request in the format of HTTP/0.9 or
        HTTP/1.0;

      o respond appropriately with a message in the same protocol
        version used by the client.

Does anyone know if there's a reason for this? Maybe there are so few
0.9 clients in existence that it doesn't matter much, but I'm curious.

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