Erik Naggum  <erik@naggum.net> wrote:
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| The WWW idea hit the world with unprecedented force.  It's a crying
| shame that HTTP and HTML had such staggeringly idiotic designs...
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The main two issues I had with HTTP/1.0 (both "fixed" now, except
that the fixes came too late to be ubiquitous in clients, servers,
and especially, proxies), were that the protocol did not provide
the *entire* URL to the server, specifically the server's full
domain name (fixed, somewhat hackily, with the HTTP/1.1 "Host:"
header), and the separate-TCP-connection-per-object ugliness
(fixed with HTTP/1.1's "Connection: Keep-Alive").

Besides those two, what other serious issues do you have with HTTP?


-Rob

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