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Date:      Wed, 28 Jun 2000 15:22:52 -0400
From:      Bill Fumerola <billf@chimesnet.com>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf files options src/sys/i386/conf NOT
Message-ID:  <20000628152251.Z18942@jade.chc-chimes.com>
In-Reply-To: <200006271755.KAA01724@john.baldwin.cx>; from jhb@FreeBSD.ORG on Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 10:55:03AM -0700
References:  <20000627091227.K275@fw.wintelcom.net> <200006271755.KAA01724@john.baldwin.cx>

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On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 10:55:03AM -0700, John Baldwin wrote:

> > Show me a browser that only issues 0.9 requests and I'll show you
> > a browser that wouldn't grok the html on my page even if it did
> > respond to 0.9.
> 
> Your home page doesn't determine the standards for HTTP. :-P
> 
> For one thing, if I manually telnet to a host, I'm much more likely
> to use a 0.9 request than a 1.0 one because it's fewer characters
> to type.  Why would anyone use telnet?  What if you want to test the
> web server on a machine over a remote login connection and don't
> have lynx or w3m installed for some reason or another?
> 'telnet foo 80\nGET /\n' is easy to type.

Well then they don't get the super-sexy performance. Your loss.

-- 
Bill Fumerola - Network Architect / Computer Horizons Corp - CHIMES
e-mail: billf@chimesnet.com / billf@FreeBSD.org





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