On 1 Feb 2002 at 8:17, Daniel Stenberg wrote: > You may count this mail as advocating for HTTP 1.1 support, yes! ;-)
I did write down some minimal requirements for HTTP/1.1 support on a scrap of paper recently. It's probably still buried under the more recent strata of crap on my desk somewhere! I know chunked encoding support was one of the requirements, but I can't remember any others I wrote down. It was probably an incomplete list anyway! HTTP/1.1 support would also allow gzip and deflate encodings etc. to be added as configurable options later. Once HTTP/1.1 support was working reliably, it ought to be made the default, with command-line or .wgetrc options to fall back to sending HTTP/1.0 requests.
