the people at BEA weren't the most up to date with HTTP (they thought using telnet to run a HTTP command was some kind of security attack )
it only happened when you sent connection:close in the first request. which mozilla/ie would never do. (CR045112 on their systems, supposed to be fixed in SP#10) > -----Original Message----- > From: Graham Leggett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 5:53 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: apache 2.0 patch to force proxy to speak HTTP/1.0 > > > Ian Holsman wrote: > > > it was the connection:close in the original request which > > broke BEA. doing the change to 1.0 fixed the prob. > > Thinking about this some more, this sounds odd - if connection: close > breaks BEA, then it would mean that it wouldn't work with > neither IE nor > Mozilla. > > Connection: close is an important part of HTTP/1.1 keepalives > that have > nothing to do with proxies specifically, but with all > clients, including > browsers. Did the people at BEA confirm what the problem was? > > Regards, > Graham > -- > ----------------------------------------- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There's a moon > over Bourbon Street > tonight..." >
