On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 07:42:08 +0100 André Malo <n...@perlig.de> wrote: > * 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) > > HTTP/0.9 support is still recommended (RFC 2616 is from 1999, but still > current). > > I'm wondering, why you would consider touching that at all. Is it broken? > Does it stand in the way of anything? If not, why throw away a feature?
Well, it complicates maintenance and makes fixing issues such as http://bugs.python.org/issue6791 less likely. Note that the patch still accepts servers and clients which advertise themselves as 0.9 (using "HTTP/0.9" as a version string). It just removes support for the style of "simple response" without headers that 0.9 allowed. 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
