I was just going to reply to some of these comments when I realised that everyone saying "HTTP 1.1 will still be accepted" is right. After all, the mere fact th

I was just going to reply to some of these comments when I realised that everyone saying "HTTP 1.1 will still be accepted" is right. After all, the mere fact that you can telnet to so many web servers that will serve gzipped content over SSL at a drop of a hat shows how backwards-compatible the web is. Don't fool yourself into thinking that just because your connection over Telnet works, everyone's using that. That Google example makes me laugh -- since Google already does SPDY! ;-)