Re: [squid-users] HTTP 1.1 Keepalive Question(s)

On Sat, 23 Oct 2004, Seun Osewa wrote:

> Is it possible for Squid to maintain Persistent Connections and
> pipelining to a client even when the server on whose behalf it's
> connecting does not fully support persistent connectiions?

It does.

> Which of
> the following limitations on the server would force squid to have to
> terminate an HTTP/1.1 connection after one request:
>
> 1) sending Connection: close after the request

Yes.

> 2) support for HTTP 1.0 only

Squid supports HTTP/1.0 persistent connections ([Proxy-]Connection:
keep-alive).

> 3) Not sending a Content-length: XX header

Yes. Squid is a HTTP/1.0 proxy and HTTP/1.0 persistent connections
requires a known Content-length.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Sat Oct 23 2004 - 14:29:14 MDT