From f2a078239ca1f5918b1c591f0e6a70b55a03643c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: hniksic Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 20:23:26 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] [svn] Mention that HTTP/0.9 now works. --- NEWS | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index a7c1dfad..778e0909 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -20,6 +20,12 @@ http://127.0.0.1' tells Wget to connect to localhost, but to specify "foo.bar" in the `Host' header. In previous versions such use of `--header' lead to duplicate headers in HTTP requests. +** The responses without headers, aka "HTTP 0.9" responses, are +detected and handled. Although HTTP 0.9 has long been obsolete, it is +still occasionally encountered. (Popular browsers still support it, +so clueless authors of dynamic pages who forget to emit headers don't +notice anything wrong.) + ** The progress bar is now updated regularly even when the data does not arrive. -- 2.39.2