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Servers not implementing the specification as written are not HTTP compiant.
Servers should always be made completely copmpliant. However, clients should
also tolerate deviant servers where possible.
In order that clients using the HTTP protocol should be able to communicate
with servers using the protocol originally implemented in the W3 data model,
clients should tolerate responses which do not start with a numeric version
number and response codes.
In this case, they should assume that the rest of the response is a document
body in type text/html.
Clients should be tolerant in parsing response status lines, in particular
they should accept any sequence of white space (SP and TAB) characters between
fields.
Lines should be regarded as terminated by the Line Feed, and the preceeding
Carriage Return character ignored.
Note: Client tolerance of bad servers
Back compatibility
White space