Is HTTP/1.0 still in use?

Question

Say one is to write an HTTP server/client, how important is it to support HTTP/1.0? Is it still used anywhere nowdays?

Edit: I\'m less concerned wit

Answer 1

HTTP/1.0 is very important in writing very basic clients that don't need the overhead of all the 1.1 things like pipelining and other complicated things required by 1.1. Post a request get a response and disconnect is very easy to code for. This might be useful in writing test cases for your server that just want to test the application functionality and NOT the HTTP protocol implementation.

There are lots of mobile browsers and applications that use 1.0 because they don't have the space or need for more sophisticated 1.1 implementations, and the latency issues with non-3G connections on non-smart phones completely negates any benefits of 1.1 features.

There are also lots of proxies that degrade everything to 1.0 regardless of what the client asks for, and then there is IE issues.

So the short answer is, for a general purpose HTTP server, 1.0 is very relevant.