Re: svn commit: r1725349 - /httpd/httpd/trunk/docs/manual/env.xml

2016-01-20 Thread Roy T. Fielding 
I don't understand this comment.  RFC7230 doesn't recommend sending HTTP/1.0.
It certainly allows it as a workaround for a broken client, but 
force-response-1.0
is not recommended for general use.

Roy

> On Jan 18, 2016, at 1:14 PM, cove...@apache.org wrote:
> 
> Author: covener
> Date: Mon Jan 18 21:14:46 2016
> New Revision: 1725349
> 
> URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1725349=rev
> Log:
> emphasize http/1.0 clients, mention RFC7230 calling this
> envvar a SHOULD.
> 
> --This line, and those below, will be inored--
> 
> Menv.xml
> 
> Modified:
>httpd/httpd/trunk/docs/manual/env.xml
> 
> Modified: httpd/httpd/trunk/docs/manual/env.xml
> URL: 
> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/trunk/docs/manual/env.xml?rev=1725349=1725348=1725349=diff
> ==
> --- httpd/httpd/trunk/docs/manual/env.xml (original)
> +++ httpd/httpd/trunk/docs/manual/env.xml Mon Jan 18 21:14:46 2016
> @@ -322,12 +322,15 @@
> 
> force-response-1.0
> 
> -  This forces an HTTP/1.0 response to clients making an HTTP/1.0
> -  request. It was originally
> -  implemented as a result of a problem with AOL's proxies. Some
> +  This forces an HTTP/1.0 response to clients making an 
> +  HTTP/1.0 request. It was originally
> +  implemented as a result of a problem with AOL's proxies during the
> +  early days of HTTP/1.1. Some
>   HTTP/1.0 clients may not behave correctly when given an HTTP/1.1
> -  response, and this can be used to interoperate with them.
> -
> +  response, and this can be used to interoperate with them.  Later
> +  revisions of the HTTP/1.1 spec (RFC 7230) recommend this behavior 
> +  for HTTP/1.0 clients.
> + 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>

Re: svn commit: r1725349 - /httpd/httpd/trunk/docs/manual/env.xml

2016-01-20 Thread Eric Covener 
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 9:18 PM, Roy T. Fielding  wrote:
> I don't understand this comment.  RFC7230 doesn't recommend sending HTTP/1.0.
> It certainly allows it as a workaround for a broken client, but 
> force-response-1.0
> is not recommended for general use.


You're right, I missed "major" in "major version" in 7230. Will axe it.