[ Whoops. squid-users is closed to non-subscribers. I just subscribed, so this should go through (and I can continue the thread there). This does mean that others won't be able to reply to the thread unless are also on the squid-users list. ] Greg Stein wrote: > > Mike Barnes wrote: > > > > I'm coming in late here, but I did a quick skim over the archives and > > couldn't find any mention of this ... apologies if I missed something and > > I'm bringing up the obvious. > > Nope, first time, so no worries :-) > > > After hours of bashing my head against my DAV config, I had the bright idea > > of turning off my proxy in IE5. Everything worked. Hooray. The Squid logs > > revealed a whole bunch of "error:unsupported-request-method" messages. > > > > So, where does the problem lie? Does Squid need to be 'DAV-Aware'? Is it > > Microsoft's fault? What should I start prodding and hacking? It's not a huge > > issue to exclude my DAV-happy servers from the proxy list, but it'd be nice > > to have things working 'perfectly'. :) > > Given that IE5 and mod_dav interoperate fine (so far that I've seen), > and that it started to work for you once you took Squid out of the > picture... I'd have to say that Squid probably does not deal with the > DAV methods properly. > > I'm copying this email to the squid-users mailing list. I looked thru > the Squid mail archive for the month of March and couldn't find anything > that looks DAV-related, so this is probably news to them, too. I also > used their search tool. Still nothing so far. > > Squid probably needs to simply pass-thru any HTTP methods that it does > not understand. > > Ah. Some related information... found in the HTTP/1.1 spec (draft 6), > section 13.10: > > "A cache that passes through requests for methods it does not understand > SHOULD invalidate any entities referred to by the Request-URI." > > There are two caveats here: Squid advertises itself as an HTTP/1.0 proxy > (and DAV requires HTTP/1.1), and the above text from 13.10 doesn't state > that a proxy MUST pass through requests for unknown methods. > [ oh. just read further. section 13.11 says the method must be passed > through. ] > > Whatever... again, the "right" thing to do is pass them through. We'll > see what the squid developers say :-) > > > Anyone dealing with this sort of thing? > > Not so far. Thanx for reporting it! I hope this can be tracked down and > fixed. > > Squid guys: please let me know how I can help you. > > Cheers, > -g > > -- > Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > dav-dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://dav.lyra.org/mailman/listinfo/dav-dev -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
