Re: #273: HTTP-Version should be redefined as fixed length pair of DIGIT . DIGIT from Willy Tarreau on 2011-03-27 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from January to March 2011)

From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 10:34:44 +0200
To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <20110327083444.GG32397@1wt.eu>

On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 10:26:18AM +0200, Mark Nottingham wrote:
> <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/273>
> 
> Any thoughts / objections to making this change?

I think it's a good idea. Too many implementations I've seen just
check for ver[7] == '1' or just memcmp(ver, "HTTP/1.1", 8). If
we ever decide to use 1.10 as a valid value, we'll get a lot of
trouble due to that.

Willy

Received on Sunday, 27 March 2011 08:35:17 UTC