> > Agreed. So that's the question: is this a wide-spread problem?

>Here are some numbers.
>I fetched 122 pages and got 10 'unable to find line starting with 
>"HTTP/"'exception messages from HTTP Client.
>
>Hm, that's almost 10%.... [...]

>Let me know if you need more numbers/data.

Are you suggesting that 10% of HTTP sites on the internet don't identify 
their protocol or version in an HTTP response?  It matters greatly which 122 
pages you fetched, and from where.

Can you point to a publicly accessibly site that suffers from this defect 
that we could use as a test case? Can you point to a server or tool that 
generates this class of response? Has anyone else seen this problem?

We could probably find a way to work around this specific problem, and would 
probably be justified in doing so if a signficant number of servers suffer 
from it, but I'm a little concerned about what other "lenient-mode" work 
arounds this would lead to.  This is a relatively easy one, but if the 
server can't even get the status-line right...

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