Re: Squid 2 - so what? ;-)

From: Dancer <dancer@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 13:01:01 +1000

It is my understanding that HTTP proxying is not supported under
HTTP/0.9 but only under 1.0 and later. I also believe that 1.x _proxies_
do not necessarily have to hold to the same 0.9 support as _servers_.

Besides, there are plenty of servers out there that don't support 0.9
properly, or even some of the more common bits of 1.0 (like HEAD
requests)

D

Paul Phillips wrote:
>
> 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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