Re: uh oh -- halp!

Matt Heffron <heffron@falstaff.css.beckman.com>
Message-id: <9309082050.AA13206@dxmint.cern.ch>
To: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Subject: Re: uh oh -- halp! 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 08 Sep 1993 15:38:19 CDT."
             <9309082038.AA02802@void.ncsa.uiuc.edu> 
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1993 13:56:22 -0700
From: Matt Heffron <heffron@falstaff.css.beckman.com>
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

Worse than that, clients that CAN take HTTP/1.0 will wait for a
REAL LONG TIME for HTTP0 servers to identify themselves.  ;-)

Matt
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