Should'nt the behaviour of a proxy in case of both RST and FIN should be same, i.e always a FIN. As proxy should close the connection **properly** even in case of a failure on the other side.
Sincerely Ajay Pal Singh Atwal ----- David Farinic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Servers are supposed to send RST packets when they do that, but not > all > >servers do it, and not all clients recognize those RST packets as > >indicating that the document they just downloaded is incomplete > > Most of the clients do recognize and most web servers do correctly > apply > use of RST and FIN for TCP/IP HTTP connection ending. > > Problem is that some (most?)Proxy servers (nontransparent and > probably > also transparent) DO NOT. > > I tested 4 different proxy servers if they pass RST to client's > browser > when original web server sent RST. All sent FIN instead of RST :(. (I > Did this test as I found other web apps. problems resulting from this > proxy behavior) > > If anybody knows proxy which behaves 'correctly,' pls let me know. > > > Regards David Farinic > _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
