RFC 2068:Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1
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compatibility


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... HTTP/1.1 clients and servers that parse the date value MUST accept all three formats (for compatibility with HTTP/1.0), though they MUST only generate the RFC 1123std3 ...
... encodings. Their use here is representative of historical practice, not good design. For compatibility with previous implementations of HTTP, applications should consider "x-gzip ...


... would leave no possibility for the server to send back a response.) For compatibility with HTTP/1.0 applications, HTTP/1.1 requests ...


... HTTP versions less than 1.1 unless it is explicitly signaled. See section 19.7.1 for more information on backwards compatibility with HTTP/1.0 clients. ...


... open up a can of worms. Thus, comparisons of any other headers (except Last-Modified, for compatibility with HTTP/1.0) are never used for purposes of validating a cache ...


... cache" Cache-Control directive or, for compatibility with HTTP/1.0 clients, "Pragma: no-cache ...
... cache cache-directive (see section 14.9) and is defined here for backwards compatibility with HTTP/1.0. Clients ...


... Compatibility with Previous Versions ...
... Compatibility with HTTP/1.0 Persistent Connections ...



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