Re: [Lynx-dev] Cannot use duckduckgo suddenly

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 07:15:35PM -0600, Tim Chase wrote:
> > 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

actually this topic is studded with the usual "citation-needed" and
littered with other statements which should have been tagged.

(I do not find Wikipedia useful as a source of information).
 
> [2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lynx-dev/2005-06/msg00047.html

this was more useful, but little point in arguing (rfc 2068 wasn't used).

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