IPP Mail Archive: RE: IPP> HTTP/1.0 in IPP

RE: IPP> HTTP/1.0 in IPP

Larry Masinter (masinter@parc.xerox.com)
Mon, 14 Dec 1998 17:51:19 PST

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> One way is to use the TELNET program, e.g.:
>
> telnet server-name-or-address 80 ENTER
> GET /index HTTP/1.1 ENTER
> Host: server-name ENTER
> ENTER
>
> If the server doesn't understand or support 1.1, you'll get an error
> message from the server. Otherwise it'll give you the contents of
> the "index.html" file...

This isn't true. 1.0 servers should respond without any difficulty to
a HTTP/1.1 request. See RFC 2145 I J. Mogul, R. Fielding, J. Gettys,
H. Nielsen, "Use and interpretation of HTTP version numbers", 05/23/1997.

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