On Wed, Apr 2, 2025 at 8:01 AM <debian-u...@howorth.org.uk> wrote: > > <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 02, 2025 at 11:04:17AM +0100, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk > > wrote: > > > > > > > GET index.html > > > > should be: > > > > GET index.html HTTP/1.0 > > > > (Strictly speaking you should close off with twice <CR><LF>, but > > most web servers are tolerant if you just send two <LF>) > > > > Not sending a HTTP version in your request /is/ a bad request, > > indeed. > > Well, practically it makes no difference. If I send with or without an > HTTP version I get the same Bad Request response. And it makes no > difference whether I use HTTP/1.0 or HTTP/1.1. > > In fact sending an HTTP version is not compulsory and the request must > be interpreted as HTTP/0.9 if it is not sent.
Small nit: HTTP-Version is required per RFC 2616, Sections 3.1 and 5.1: Request-Line = Method SP Request-URI SP HTTP-Version CRLF The "robustness principle" from RFC 2145 says a server should service a request with a missing HTTP-Version. HTTP-Version is optional in Media Type requests. Jeff
