Forum OpenACS Q&A: Response to FYI: Web speed test online

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Posted by Tom Jackson on

Actually AOLserver doesn't support a lot of what is in HTTP 1.0 or even 0.9. Most web browsers don't use that extra functionality either. But that doesn't mean that you couldn't add the stuff you want. In OpenACS, the request processor filter takes on almost all response generation, so it is even more limited in conformity than AOLserver is out of the box. I don't see what effect this has on anything members of this community wish to do with AOLserver or OpenACS.

Also, nonconformance is more noteable in what most web applications support that are not in HTTP of any level: cookies, redirects from post operations, GET requests with side effects, frames, etc. However, some would argue that these things are useful in some context.