emphasize http/1.0 clients, mention RFC7230 calling this

envvar a SHOULD.

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M    env.xml

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diff --git a/docs/manual/env.xml b/docs/manual/env.xml
index db8c204c7c95410198b3f42123b13cf6919c09b9..f34c21fa6920d2f6d2a2eca9c3f64df035f7deef 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/manual/env.xml
+++ b/docs/manual/env.xml
@@ -322,12 +322,15 @@
     <section id="force-response">
         <title>force-response-1.0</title>
 
-      <p>This forces an HTTP/1.0 response to clients making an HTTP/1.0
-      request. It was originally
-      implemented as a result of a problem with AOL's proxies. Some
+      <p>This forces an HTTP/1.0 response to clients making an 
+      <em>HTTP/1.0</em> request. It was originally
+      implemented as a result of a problem with AOL's proxies during the
+      early days of HTTP/1.1. Some
       HTTP/1.0 clients may not behave correctly when given an HTTP/1.1
-      response, and this can be used to interoperate with them.</p>
-
+      response, and this can be used to interoperate with them.  Later
+      revisions of the HTTP/1.1 spec (RFC 7230) recommend this behavior 
+      for HTTP/1.0 clients.</p>
+ 
     </section>
 
     <section id="gzip-only-text-html">