On Wednesday 07 November 2012 22:16:46 Graham Leggett wrote: > On 07 Nov 2012, at 10:35 PM, André Malo <n...@perlig.de> wrote: > >> It feels wrong targeting 0.9 only, would it be possible to do this in a > >> generic way, say by listing the ones accepted, or by specifying a > >> minimum? > > > > Hmm, what would be the use case? I see it with HTTP/0.9, but I don't see > > it with >= HTTP/1.0. I'd prefer kind of "duck typing" for those, like > > asking "is a valid host header present?" - which is already possible. > > I've had problems in the past with HTTP/1.0 requests to restful services > causing keepalive problems with load balancers, and I'd like to be able to > ban HTTP/1.0 requests, allowing HTTP/1.1 only.
Huh. It sounds more like fixing the loadbalancers would be the way to go. Most non-browser clients don't speak HTTP/1.1 anyway. nd