Re: [squid-users] Transfer-Encoding support in Squid 2.6

fre 2007-06-08 klockan 11:05 -0700 skrev Ben Drees:

> I'm running Squid 2.6 STABLE12 as a reverse proxy. The origin servers
> are Apaches (2.0.58) configured to gzip most responses (which are all
> dynamic) with mod_deflate. The fact that Squid is an HTTP 1.0 client has
> the undesirable effect, in this scenario, that every compressed response
> results in a connection closure. If I use telnet to replay a forwarded
> request, changing only the "HTTP/1.0" to "HTTP/1.1", the response
> includes "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" and "Connection: Keep-Alive"
> rather than "Connection: Close". If only there were some other way to
> produce this outcome.

There is an experimental patch to add partial HTTP/1.1 support to
Squid-2 at http://devel.squid-cache.org/. This might work for you unless
your site is accepting POST/PUT requests.. (100-Continue is not yet
supported).

Regards
Henrik