Re: Squid and HTTP/1.0

On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Avi Saxena wrote:

> Looking through squid code I see that squid forces all responses to
> be HTTP/1.0. Why does Squid do this? What is the benefit of
> overriding the web servers HTTP/1.1 status? It appears this will
> cause the client to break the persistent connection each time.

Persistent connections are possible with HTTP/1.0. Squid has to
downgrade the protocol version because Squid does not support HTTP/1.1
to the degree that permits to at least lie about HTTP/1.1 compliance.
IIRC, downgrading the protocol version in this situation is required by
HTTP.

Alex.
Received on Mon Jun 19 2000 - 19:56:36 MDT