On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 11:21:37AM -0500, James Y Knight wrote: > > Even HTTP 0.9 says that response SHOULD start with status line, but > > gives a suggestion that clients can "tolerate" bad server server > > behaviors when they don't send the status line and in that the case > > response is the body. > > > > http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/Response.html > > > > So, It cannot be associated with the behavior "most webservers", back > > then and even more so now. > > Actually no. That document is describing almost-HTTP 1.0.
Yeah. I know it was almost-HTTP 1.0, but the same docs say that if protocol version was not specified, it is assumed to be 0.9. So, I thought it was a good reference point to understand the behavior. > Here is the actual document you were looking for: > http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/AsImplemented.html > > HTTP 0.9 had no headers, no status line, nothing but "GET $url <crlf>" and a > stream of data in response. Actually, you are right. I seems be be actual defined behavior of HTTP 0.9. As explained in that above doc and also in RFC 1945 Request section. -- Senthil _______________________________________________ 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
