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

On 30/10/10 00:45, Mikio Kishi wrote:
> 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.

I think we still misunderstand each other on this thread...

  * Multiple POST on a connection has always been allowed.
  * Requiring them within a single connection is BAD.

 From 3.1.8+ re-use of connections is tried more than earlier releases.
If those broken apps have started working it is more luck than any specs.

>
> --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
>>
>>

Amos

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