-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Peter,
On 1/8/2010 3:00 AM, Peter Chen wrote: > I am using Tomcat 5.5.26, and the configuration of Connector is > like this: > > <Connector port="8088" protocol="HTTP/1.1" [snip] > It's clear that the HTTP protocol version is HTTP/1.1. The web > service provided by this Tomcat will be used all over the world. So, > maybe someone will use HTTP/1.0 or HTTP/0.9. > > I want to know does this Tomcat support HTTP/1.0 or HTTP/0.9 protocol. > Pleas help me make sure of it. Take a look at http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/config/http.html for the meaning of the "protocol" attribute. If you read further down in that document, you'll see this section: " HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/1.0 Support This Connector supports all of the required features of the HTTP/1.1 protocol, as described in RFC 2616, including persistent connections, pipelining, expectations and chunked encoding. If the client (typically a browser) supports only HTTP/1.0, the Connector will gracefully fall back to supporting this protocol as well. No special configuration is required to enable this support. The Connector also supports HTTP/1.0 keep-alive. RFC 2616 requires that HTTP servers always begin their responses with the highest HTTP version that they claim to support. Therefore, this Connector will always return HTTP/1.1 at the beginning of its responses. " So, in a nutshell: HTTP/1.1 is backward-compatible with HTTP/1.0. HTTP/1.0 is nominally backward-compatible with HTTP/0.9, but nobody uses 0.9 so you shouldn't really worry about that. > I think the version of used HTTP protocol is determined by > browser, is it right? It's determined by both client and server. The client is required to advertise the highest level of HTTP it supports in the request, as is the server in the response. The server should adjust the response characteristics to match that of the client to the best of its ability. For your purposes, I don't believe any additional configuration is necessary to support these legacy clients. - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAktHqtYACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PCVdwCgtc0rP/q9xf9CmU+hJVscaIbQ G0gAmwaZkxhI/68qBV7bmnbA+k1hw5rA =JlBC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
