Sounds about right. > -----Original Message----- > From: Marc Slemko [mailto:marcs@znep.com] > Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 1999 1:18 AM > To: Kalvinder Singh > Cc: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com > Subject: Re: Proxy-Connection header definition? > > > On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Kalvinder Singh wrote: > > > So does that mean that a proxy that knows about the Proxy-Connection > > header should remove it from the request message and should > not try to > > set up a persistent connection??? Or is there another way > that you can > > deal with it??? > > I guess there is a simpler way of stating this. > > All proxies should always strip the Proxy-Connection header > from requests > that are forwarded. ie. it is a hop-by-hop header. This is > one of the > several undocumented HTTP "must do's" that software needs to > deal with. > > In addition to the above, if that proxy is capable, it can act on the > Proxy-Connection header to control the connection between the > client and > the proxy as appropriate, if it wants to. It should not act on the > Proxy-Connection header if it isn't a "real" proxy; ie. the > client does > not know that it is talking to a proxy. >Received on Wednesday, 27 January 1999 15:40:15 UTC
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