On 05:02 pm, solipsis at pitrou.net wrote: >On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:52:14 +0800 >Senthil Kumaran <orsenthil at gmail.com> wrote: >>Actually, it is turning out to be true: >> >>http://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/http/rfc1945.html#Response >> >>According to HTTP 1.0, When a request is Simple-Request, it means a >>VERB URL (without a version) and it generally corresponds to HTTP 0.9 >>And when a server receives such a Simple-Request, it sends a >>Simple-Response where it does not send the headers back. >> >>I think, the same is exhibited by other Servers as well >>www.google.com, www.mozilla.org where for Invalid Request without >>version, you are sending a Simple-Request (HTTP 0.9) style and getting >>the corresponding response. > >Yes, but only error or redirect responses: > >$ nc www.google.fr 80 >GET / >HTTP/1.0 302 Found >Location: http://www.google.fr/ >[etc.] Note that by using `nc` to test this, you're already generating an illegal request (unless you're doing something very special with your keyboard ;). When you hit return, nc will send \n. However, lines are delimited by \r\n in HTTP. I doubt this makes a difference to the point being discussed, but it _could_. I suggest performing your tests with telnet, instead. Jean-Paul
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