On 12 Apr 2002 at 11:59, Tony Lewis wrote: > Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > > > > Is there any way to make Wget use HTTP/1.1 ? > > > > Unfortunately, no. > > In looking at the debug output, it appears to me that wget is really sending > HTTP/1.1 headers, but claiming that they are HTTP/1.0 headers. For example, > the Host header was not defined in RFC 1945, but wget is sending it.
It's allowed to send these additional headers as a server would just ignore those it doesn't understand. Wget does not fulfill the minimal requirements of an HTTP/1.1 client, which is why it does not pretend to be one! Maybe one day....
