Re: p7: forwarding Proxy-*

Makes sense to me. We need to note the change at the end of p1, though, since it's a significant change from 2616.


On 30/04/2013, at 5:21 PM, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 12:04:53PM +1000, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>> Well, they're listed as hop-by-hop in 2616, and AFAICT we haven't explicitly
>> discussed changing that.
> 
> Maybe because at the time 2616 was written, intermediaries were almost only
> proxies. But I agree with Roy here, if I install haproxy to load-balance a
> squid farm, the proxy-auth headers are for squid and not for haproxy. So it's
> not hop-by-hop, it's for the first explicit proxy in the chain. So I agree
> with Roy here.
> 
>> Are you saying that they shouldn't be included in Connection, ever?
> 
> I would personally suggest so.
> 
> Willy
> 

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