Hello,

On Wed, 05 December 2001, "Rodney Waldhoff" wrote:

> 
> > > 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?

Here are some such web servers:
http://www.ananzi.co.za
http://www.burkina98.com
http://www.familytreemaker.com
http://www.ogr.com
http://www.amazon.com
http://www.cnn.com
http://www.zeit.de

> Can you point to a server or tool that 
> generates this class of response? 
Lots of the ones linsted above are fairly recent Apache servers.

> 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...

I understand and agree with you.
Please double-check my findings, I wouldn't want to be misinforming you :)

Thanks,
Otis

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