Re: Is there any timetable for moving HTML-2.0 out of beta?

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Date: Wed, 14 Apr 93 15:58:17 +0100
From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@www3.cern.ch>
Message-id: <9304141458.AA06272@www3.cern.ch>
To: joe@athena.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Is there any timetable for moving HTML-2.0 out of beta?
Cc: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Reply-To: timbl@nxoc01.cern.ch

| From: joe@athena.mit.edu
| Date: Tue, 13 Apr 93 21:49:13 -0400
| 

| In particular, is there a deadline for when HTTP daemons will be 

| expected to grok HTML-2.0?

I assume you mean  ^^^^ HTTP.

I haven't made a deadline, but one thing is imperitive, and that is
that any existing server or database which falls over given a third  
word on the HTTP request line MUST be upgraded immediately. These
servers are just buggy.  (mea culpa, I know!)

I notice that although new gopher servers seem to handle HTTP,
they treat any thirs word as a search term (instead of extracting
it from a ?xx+yy+zz suffix on the URL) and so break on full HTTP.

I have just fixed the techinfo gateway.

Tim