[apologies for the large Cc: list, not sure what to take out] According to Sam Bradford:
Although the amount of clients connecting with 1.0 may be very little in most cases, it does still happen. We have customers specifically state that they do not want to set up http 1.1 because at the end of the day, some people will not be able to view their (and/or their clients') web sites, which is fair enough. If they want to ensure that every person possible can access their site, I believe they should have that right.
There is one thing people are forgetting to mention. This isn't about HTTP/1.1. It is about the Host: header, which is indeed in the HTTP/1.1 standard but is _also_ an allowed extension to HTTP/1.0. In fact, all HTTP/1.0 compliant browsers less than say four or five years old send this Host: header even in HTTP/1.0 requests. Netscape 1.x and up do, MSIE 3.x and up do. Is there anyone still using Netscape 0.x or MSIE 2.x ? If so, chances are that they can't view 95% of all sites anyway because of HTML shortcomings .. Mike. -- First things first, but not necessarily in that order.