On Dec 16, 2010, at 3:14 AM, Senthil Kumaran wrote: > Even HTTP 0.9 says that response SHOULD start with status line, but > gives a suggestion that clients can "tolerate" bad server server > behaviors when they don't send the status line and in that the case > response is the body. > > http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/Response.html > > So, It cannot be associated with the behavior "most webservers", back > then and even more so now.
Actually no. That document is describing almost-HTTP 1.0. Here is the actual document you were looking for: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/AsImplemented.html HTTP 0.9 had no headers, no status line, nothing but "GET $url <crlf>" and a stream of data in response. James _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
