Re: uh oh -- halp!

ebina@ncsa.uiuc.edu
Wed, 08 Sep 93 15:38:19 -0500


> I have an option. Don't mess with the CR LF stuff, just add a way
> to indentify the protocol. If HTTP servers identified themselves at
> startup by saying "welcome: HTTP/1.0", or something like that, then we
> would know exactly what to send and expect. This would solve alot
> of current problems and some BIG future problems as well.
>
> :lou

But won't this require 2 round trips for every document. First ask
the server its HTTP version, then send the request. Massive slowdown
it seems to me.

Eric