Thread: Suggestion to v0.6 Handshake
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Old January 20th, 2002
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Default Re: Suggestion to v0.6 Handshake
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Originally posted by Moak

About v0.6 handshake upwards compatibility. A client should not respond with "GNUTELLA/0.6 200 OK" when a v0.7 client (or above) connects. Instead it should respond with "GNUTELLA/0.6 501 Not Implemented".
What advantages would that have over 0.6? When you receive a "GNUTELLA/0.6 200 OK" to a "GNUTELLA CONNECT/0.7" you will know that 0.7 is not implemented and, if you want, you can terminate the connection, if you wanted to prefer hosts that implemented the newer protocol.