On Monday, April 22, 2002, at 11:11 AM, Joshua Slive wrote:
> Bill Stoddard wrote: > >>> SetEnv force-response-1.0 >>> >>> According to the docs here: >>> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/env.html#special >>> The point of that was to deal with silly proxies that belched when they >>> saw "HTTP/1.1" (regardless of the actual protocol version of the >>> response). > >> Really? I don't intuit that from the doc though you may be right. The >> behaviour being >> observed is how 1.3 has been working for years (pretty sure anyway) and >> to the best of my >> knowledge, it is not breaking anything. Would be interested in knowing >> what exactly is >> breaking with this PR. > > I guess I'm reading that in the context of > http://httpd.apache.org/info/aol-http.html > and I'm also asking the question "What does force-response-1.0 do that > downgrade-1.0 doesn't do?" downgrade-1.0 is for ignoring client requests that indicate HTTP/1.1 but we know the client is broken and cannot deal with HTTP/1.1 features. We send an HTTP/1.1 response using only 1.0 features. force-response-1.0 is for dealing with clients that simply cannot parse the HTTP/1.1 version number. For these we send an HTTP/1.0 response using only 1.0 features. They are both needed, though I wouldn't consider it a high priority. ....Roy
