A quick look at HTTP requests on really old browsers. HTTP/0.9, originally just HTTP, was a very simple protocol: essentially a one-line GET request with no version token and no request headers. Mozilla has a great write-up on it. One correction to my earlier theory though: the old browsers themselves were not necessarily speaking HTTP/0.9. My Apache logs showed MacWeb, Mosaic and Netscape reaching the server as HTTP/1.0. Still, it was interesting trying to get a modern CDN - Cloudflare in my case - to play nicely with browsers that are now almost older than time itself.

 

Aren’t cicadas neat? I’ve got videos queued up for both my Nix McRetro and Super Nature World channels over the coming weeks or even months. However, due to cashflow issues owing to long-term unemployment, I’ll soon be forced to move to a location with no internet.

The rush is on to get as much video processed as possible and uploaded to YouTube. It also means this self-hosted website will temporarily disappear. The new internet connection poses a bunch of potential issues too, thanks to CG-NAT. Perhaps Cloudflare Tunnel, which I was still habitually calling Argo Tunnel, might be the answer? I’ll see if I can work out a temporary solution to at least put a maintenance/planned downtime notice up. Absolute worst case, there is always archive.org. 🙃

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