[thelist] HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1
Jacob Stetser
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Fri Dec 15 19:45:40 CST 2000
Most browsers send either HTTP/1.0 or HTTP/1.1, but all browsers from
2.0 onward (I think) also send the Host: header. There are large
parts of the 1.1 spec that some of those older ones didn't implement
-- Keep-Alive, for example.
Jake
>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?
>
> - Joe "the dangerously curious" Crawford
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