On 12/04/2002 21:37:31 hniksic wrote:

>"Tony Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
>>
>>> > Is there any way to make Wget use HTTP/1.1 ?
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, no.
>>
>> In looking at the debug output, it appears to me that wget is really
>> sending HTTP/1.1 headers, but claiming that they are HTTP/1.0
>> headers. For example, the Host header was not defined in RFC 1945,
>> but wget is sending it.
>
>Yes.  That is by design -- HTTP was meant to be extended in that way.
>Wget is also requesting and accepting `Keep-Alive', using `Range', and
>so on.
>
>Csaba Raduly's patch would break Wget because it doesn't suppose the
>"chunked" transfer-encoding.  Also, its understanding of persistent
>connection might not be compliant with HTTP/1.1.

IT WAS A JOKE !
Serves me right. I need to put bigger smilies :-(


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