HTTP/1.1 Additions
Lots of problems associated with HTTP/1.0
- the network problems we talked about before
- very poor cache consistency models
- difficulty implementing multi-homed servers
- want 1 IP address with multiple DNS names - how?
- hard to precalculate content-lengths
- connection dropped = lost data
HTTP/1.1 is bloated spec to fix these problems
- introduces many complexities
- no longer an easy protocol to implement