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

Re: IPP> HTTP/1.0 in IPP

Michael Sweet (mike@easysw.com)
Tue, 15 Dec 1998 08:39:47 -0500

Larry Masinter wrote:
> ...
> 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.

I stand corrected; here is what I get from www.microsoft.com:

HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Server: Microsoft-IIS/4.0
Content-Location: http://www.microsoft.com/Default.htm
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 13:33:44 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Last-Modified: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 21:42:26 GMT
ETag: "04ddca3aa27be1:73f74"
Content-Length: 19055
...

So, in the response it indicates HTTP/1.0 and *not* 1.1, so MS
IIS does *not* support HTTP 1.1... FWIW, Apache 1.3.x (which is
also available for MS Windows) reports:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 13:36:12 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.1 (Unix)
Last-Modified: Fri, 02 Oct 1998 18:30:19 GMT
ETag: "492b04-928-36151bbb"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 2344
Content-Type: text/html
...

So to the original poster of this question: no, the Microsoft HTTP
products don't support HTTP 1.1, however you can use other (free)
packages that do.

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