Re: [squid-users] Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive in POST Requests?

Hi, Henrik

Was the post handling specification modified on squid-3.1.9 ?
On 3.1.9, multi post requests in a http connection became OK.

--mkishi

2010/9/9 Henrik Nordström <henrik_at_henriknordstrom.net>:
> ons 2010-09-08 klockan 14:46 +0900 skrev Mikio Kishi:
>
>> It's still a feature, right ?
>> On the Internet, there are some web applications which requires
>> multi post requests in a http connection...
>
> Applications which require some special relation between connection and
> requests are per definition broken.
>
> Connections in HTTP are hop-by-hop, not end-to-end. There is no relation
> between connections made by clients to proxy and connections made by the
> proxy to requested servers.
>
> You can have N clients connections getting multiplexed over 1 server
> connection. Or 1 persistent client connection getting it's requests
> distributed over M server connections. Exact result depends on the
> traffic and policy of client, proxy and webserver, but the key is that
> client<->proxy and proxy<->server connections are fully independent.
>
> An exception to this is if you are using NTLM or Negotiate(kerberos)
> authentication, as those authentication protocols is not HTTP
> authentication schemes but TCP connection authentication schemes in
> direct violation with HTTP messaging rules.
>
> Regards
> Henrik
>
>
Received on Fri Oct 29 2010 - 11:45:11 MDT