RFC 2068:Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1
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version number


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... understanding further HTTP communication, rather than the features obtained via that communication. No change is made to the version number for the addition of message components which do not affect communication behavior or which only add to extensible field values. The <minor> number is incremented when the changes made to the ...
... HTTP-Version of "HTTP/1.1". Use of this version number indicates that the sending application is at least conditionally compliant with this specification. ...


... Clients SHOULD remember the version number of at least the most recently used server; if an HTTP/1.1 client ...


... protocol, such as a later version of HTTP with a higher major version number, even though the current request has been made using HTTP/1.1. This eases the difficult transition between incompatible protocols by ...



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