Bill Stoddard wrote: >>SetEnv force-response-1.0 >> >>According to the docs here: >>http://httpd.apache.org/docs/env.html#special >>The point of that was to deal with silly proxies that belched when they >>saw "HTTP/1.1" (regardless of the actual protocol version of the >>response).
> Really? I don't intuit that from the doc though you may be right. The behaviour being > observed is how 1.3 has been working for years (pretty sure anyway) and to the best >of my > knowledge, it is not breaking anything. Would be interested in knowing what exactly >is > breaking with this PR. I guess I'm reading that in the context of http://httpd.apache.org/info/aol-http.html and I'm also asking the question "What does force-response-1.0 do that downgrade-1.0 doesn't do?" And, indeed, I can get HTTP/1.0 200 OK Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 18:06:14 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.20-dev (Unix) Connection: close Content-Type: text/html out of an old Apache 1.3 I have hanging around. (Unfortunately, I don't have a unix box with 2.0 right now, so I can't answer Will's original question.) But I agree, I don't see any need for that functionality in the modern world, so perhaps it should just be removed. Joshua.
