Re: uh oh -- halp!

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Message-id: <9309082038.AA02802@void.ncsa.uiuc.edu>
To: montulli@aixtest.cc.ukans.edu (Lou Montulli)
Cc: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Subject: Re: uh oh -- halp! 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 08 Sep 93 15:29:36 CDT."
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Date: Wed, 08 Sep 93 15:38:19 -0500
From: ebina@ncsa.uiuc.edu
Status: RO

>  I have an option.  Don't mess with the CR LF stuff, just add a way
>  to indentify the protocol.  If HTTP servers identified themselves at
>  startup by saying "welcome: HTTP/1.0", or something like that, then we
>  would know exactly what to send and expect.  This would solve alot
>  of current problems and some BIG future problems as well.
>  
>  :lou


But won't this require 2 round trips for every document.  First ask
the server its HTTP version, then send the request.  Massive slowdown
it seems to me.

	Eric