[thelist] HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1

Matthew Haughey matt at haughey.com
Fri Dec 15 18:40:11 CST 2000


On Friday, 12/15/2000, at 04:15 PM, Joe Crawford wrote:
>Interesting - so the meta question is this - how do browsers decide what
>to provide to servers? Do they do any negotiation and decide to speak
>one or the other? I'm not asking because I want to read the HTTP spec -
>but in layman's terms - how do browsers and servers decide what to speak
>to each other? Can a server speak either/or/both for the same domain?

AFAIK, browsers from Netscape 2.0 forward have always used the HTTP 1.1 
spec when making any request from a web server. HTTP 1.0 browsers would be 
Netscape 1.2 and everything before it and possibly IE 2.0 and any before that.

Matt





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