On Tue, 2001-10-23 at 20:21, Stefan Siegel wrote:
> Es schrieb Kevin Maciunas:
> > A! I must admit I never suspected that! I guess this is just a
> > documentation issue now :-) I've changed to HTTP/1.0 and (so far) the
> > problem has not re-appeared!
> >
> > I guess I'm not entirely alone in using the Junkbuster proxy, so it
> > might be as well to somehow make this more obvious to the user - maybe
> > it would even be sensible for moz to default to 1.0 behaviour? Just a
> > thought!
>
> I don't think so. As we have a newer and better standard, why stay with the
> old one? If I would continue wih your argumentation, I'd suggest staying
> with Netscape 3 or even Mosaic (this was the original web browser created
> by the Cern, BTW this was long before Java or JavaScript).
>
> It should be the other way around: contact the maintainer of JunkBuster
> and ask him if he can add HTTP/1.1 support to its product.
>
I QUITE agree, the point I was making is that there is a released
product (LM8,1) which when bolted together in a certain way does not
work correctly. The quick pro-tem fix is to set the moz default.
Wearing my "Open Source is good" hat, this simple incompatibility, like
many others, is what the general press takes as "Linux/BSD/... is not
yet ready for prime time".
I'm personally disappointed that I didn't pick this one and flag it
during the RC phase... Unfortunately, I was a bit busy attending to
other things at the time :-(
/Kevin
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