- From: Ari Luotonen <luotonen@netscape.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 15:26:46 -0800
- To: Nick Ambrose <nicka@interdyn.com>
- Cc: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
Nick Ambrose wrote: > > We are developing a transparent web proxy, such that a browser does not > necessarily know that it is sending requests through a proxy. I have > inherited the Web proxy code from a contractor who left. It turns out, > that our Proxy only supports HTTP/1.0 and will reject any requests for > HTTP/1.1 Looking at the Netscape Proxy server, it seems to have some > way of 'downgrading' the Browser to HTTP/1.0 as a stopgap measure. > > My question: Is there a document / RFC somwhere which explains how we > are supposed to do this ? > > I haven't been able to find anything so far. You can't write a transparent HTTP/1.1 proxy. HTTP/1.1 makes explicit provisions for proxies which requires the client to be aware whether or not a proxy is in between. -- Ari Luotonen, Mail-Stop MV-068 Opinions my own, not Netscape's. Netscape Communications Corp. ari@netscape.com 501 East Middlefield Road http://people.netscape.com/ari/ Mountain View, CA 94043, USA Netscape Proxy Server Development
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