On sending a GET to www.microsoft.com 800 from an Irix 5.3 machine this is
what I get, I dont know what version of client this machine has. Is it
that my client is 1.1 & the server 1.0 & is not able to service the
request.
HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Server: Microsoft-IIS/4.0
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 14:57:36 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 87
<html><head><title>Error</title></head><body>The parameter is incorrect.
</body>
</html>Connection closed by foreign host.
Michael Sweet wrote:
> 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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> Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products mike at easysw.com> Printing Software for UNIX http://www.easysw.com