[Python-Dev] Remove HTTP 0.9 support

[André Malo]

On Thursday 16 December 2010 15:23:05 Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 07:42:08 +0100
>
> André Malo <nd at perlig.de> wrote:
> > * Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I would like to remove HTTP 0.9 support from http.client and
> > > http.server. I've opened an issue at http://bugs.python.org/issue10711
> > > for that. Would anyone think it's a bad idea?
> > >
> > > (HTTP 1.0 was devised in 1996)
> >
> > HTTP/0.9 support is still recommended (RFC 2616 is from 1999, but still
> > current).
> >
> > I'm wondering, why you would consider touching that at all. Is it broken?
> > Does it stand in the way of anything? If not, why throw away a feature?
>
> Well, it complicates maintenance and makes fixing issues such as
> http://bugs.python.org/issue6791 less likely.

I'd vote for removing it from the client code and keeping it in the server.

> Note that the patch still accepts servers and clients which advertise
> themselves as 0.9 (using "HTTP/0.9" as a version string).

HTTP/0.9 doesn't *have* a version string.

GET /foo

is a HTTP/0.9 request.

GET /foo HTTP/0.9

isn't actually (it's a paradoxon, alright ;). It simply isn't a valid HTTP 
request, which would demand a 505 response.

nd