Re: Is HTTP/1.0 still relevant?

Stefan Eissing <stefan.eissing@greenbytes.de> Fri, 04 September 2020 09:31 UTC

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I mean, to be honest, the Internet worked best at the time of HTTP/1.0. ;)

Stefan

> Am 04.09.2020 um 11:13 schrieb Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>:
> 
> On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 11:08:24AM +0200, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
>> On Fri, 4 Sep 2020, Willy Tarreau wrote:
>> 
>>>> - server then gives Content-Length: in response
>>> 
>>> They're lucky because it could perfectly just deliver the data and close!
>> 
>> Yes absolutely. And it somewhat puzzling to a client-oriented mind like mine
>> that there are servers that opt to go chunked even though they apparently
>> have the size ...
> 
> Maybe they actually go the hard way and buffer everything just to
> count... I've already seen such horrors a long time ago.
> 
> Willy