RE: Squid 2 - so what? ;-)

On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Paul Phillips wrote:

> > * 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.

Squid is not 1.1 compliant. However, many important 1.1 features are
supported. Moreover, supporting all features of 1.1 is probably infeasible at
the moment because the protocol itself has a lot of "dark areas".

What 0.9 features are you missing in Squid? Does HTTP/0.9 apply to proxies at
all?

Alex.
Received on Wed Oct 07 1998 - 18:37:26 MDT