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 _________________________________________________________________ iVillage.com: Solutions for Your Life Check out the most exciting women's community on the Web http://www.ivillage.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
