Re: p1: Receiving a higher minor HTTP version number

Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> Mon, 22 April 2013 03:49 UTC

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  http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/449

On 20/04/2013, at 2:07 PM, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:

> I don't see anything in p1 2.6 Protocol Versioning that explicitly says an implementation ought to accept a message that has the same major version number it implements, but a higher minor version number.
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> I think we need to spell this out, because IME some servers do error out on (for example) a HTTP/1.2 request.
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