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From: Jim Jagielski <jim@jaguNET.com>
Message-Id: <200207032044.QAA19508@devsys.jaguNET.com>
Subject: Re: Christopher Williamson: URGENT: Bug/compatability issue in Apache
To: dev@httpd.apache.org
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 16:44:58 -0400 (EDT)
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In-Reply-To: <no.id> from "Jim Jagielski" at Jul 03, 2002 04:37:06 PM
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FWIW: httpd-2.0 does not appear to perform this check...

  +0 for removing the check
  +1 for making it runtime

either way :)

Jim Jagielski wrote:
> 
> Hrm.... I would be prone to either removing this patch, or at least
> redoing it. As some of you may recall, I mentioned this area a little
> bit ago regarding our use and expectation of ANSI sscanf() here as
> well.
> 
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: Christopher Williamson: URGENT: Bug/compatability issue in Apache 1.3.26
> > Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2002 12:49:26 -0600
> > From: Christopher Williamson <chrisw@dq.com>
> > To: martin@apache.org, support@apache.org, bugs@apache.org
> > 
> > Due to an error in OUR online game code, we were incorrectly requesting
> > files using 'HTTP-1.0' instead of 'HTTP/1.0' on the GET request line.  As you
> > know, this is wrong.  However, suprisingly, this worked just fine for several
> > years with both Apache and other Web servers, presumably because the server 
> > just ignored it or defaulted to HTTP/1.0.

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