- From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
- Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 14:06:12 +0100
- To: Stefan Eissing <stefan.eissing@greenbytes.de>
- Cc: Mark Nottingham <mnot@yahoo-inc.com>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Stefan Eissing wrote: > >However, the widely deployed Squid proxy cache > ><http://www.squid-cache.org/> does not behave in this manner; it > >requires a Connection: keep-alive header (or Proxy-Connection, but > >that's another discussion) in requests in order for them to persist. > > > I struggled with exactly the same issue when implementing a HTTP stack. > Someone forced me with money to make it work with squid as it is widely > deployed. Those were the days... What is the difficulty with writing a client to work with Squid? If you omit the "Connection: keep-alive", you'll just get a non-keepalive connection, but it'll work fine. Isn't that right? -- Jamie
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