Re: Handling RA extensions between 1.x releases

On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 15:36, Peter N. Lundblad wrote:
> > The question at hand here is how a server knows whether it's talking to
> > an old or new client. If it's a completely new REPORT request, an old
> > client won't be making the request.

> My question, when I started the thread, was how a new client knows it is
> talking to an old server.

Yes, but if you'll check the thread history, you'll find that I wasn't
answering your question; I was answering Branko's question, which was
the reverse.

> I found an old mail from April, where Ben
> Collins-Sussman suggested to just catch the HTTP error from the server and
> then fall back to the old behaviour. Is this considered acceptable. (The
> mail was in the thread about the copy follows history initiative.)

Yes, that's fine.

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Received on Fri Jun 11 00:53:20 2004