Re: [Lynx-dev] Cannot use duckduckgo suddenly

[Tim Chase]

> On 2015-12-16 23:39, Ian Collier wrote:
> > doing it by hand works too:
> > 
> > $ (echo "GET / HTTP/1.1" ; echo "host: duckduckgo.com" ; echo )
> > | nc duckduckgo.com 80 > test.html
> 
> But if you send HTTP/1.0 instead of 1.1 it closes the connection
> without sending any data.

Just received confirmation from the DuckDuckGo folks that they
dropped HTTP/1.0 support:

https://twitter.com/duckduckgo/status/677291463957422080

But really, HTTP/1.1 (AKA RFC-2068) became official in January of
1997, replacing the HTTP/1.0 standard (RFC-1945) that had only become
the standard ~2 years prior.  According to [1], lynx supported
HTTP/1.1 as of version 2.5 but according to [2] it wasn't supported
as of 2005.  So nearly 20 years later, one might hope that lynx
supported 1.1. :-(

-tim

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP/1.1

[2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lynx-dev/2005-06/msg00047.html