ok. so do you think I should apply the pacth, or should I add a 'disable-keepalive' patch which just put a 'connection:close' instead of the connection:... (as well as the http/1.0)
> -----Original Message----- > From: Graham Leggett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Mon, May 14, 2001 8:16 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: apache 2.0 patch to force proxy to speak HTTP/1.0 > > > Ian Holsman wrote: > > > 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 ) > > Hmmm - the claim to build a webserver extension but know little about > HTTP... sounds familiar. > > > it only happened when you sent connection:close in the first > > request. which mozilla/ie would never do. > > Unless keepalives were switched off. > > I see why it didn't work now - IE and Mozilla + proxy in theory would > have worked, but only if keepalives were switched on. If > keepalives were > switched off, or if Netscape was used (which only supports HTTP/1.0), > the proxy would have added a connection: close on all requests (as > required by RFC2616) but BEA would have choked. > > Regards, > Graham > -- > ----------------------------------------- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There's a moon > over Bourbon Street > tonight..." >
