On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:20:54 -0800 Glenn Linderman <v+pyt...@g.nevcal.com> wrote:
> On 12/15/2010 1:25 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 12:58:51 -0800 > > Glenn Linderman<v+pyt...@g.nevcal.com> wrote: > >> On 12/15/2010 10:39 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > >>> Hello, > >>> > >>> I would like to remove HTTP 0.9 support from http.client and > >>> http.server. I've opened an issue at http://bugs.python.org/issue10711 > >>> for that. Would anyone think it's a bad idea? > >>> > >>> (HTTP 1.0 was devised in 1996) > >> Please address the following comment from the server.py source: > >> > >> # The default request version. This only affects responses up until > >> # the point where the request line is parsed, so it mainly decides > >> what > >> # the client gets back when sending a malformed request line. > >> # Most web servers default to HTTP 0.9, i.e. don't send a status > >> line. > >> default_request_version = "HTTP/0.9" > > What do you mean by "address"? The patch changes this to 1.0. > > And, as the comment says, this only affects what happens when the > > client sends a syntactically invalid request line, so whether the server > > does a 0.9-style or 1.0-style response is unimportant. > > Just what you did... justify the unimportance of not changing it :) > Since now it is different than "most web servers". Well, I think the "most web servers" comment itself is outdated. Try e.g. www.mozilla.org or www.google.com or www.msn.com. (but www.python.org or www.apache.org still have the legacy behaviour) Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
