On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Schuster, Dan wrote: > When Squid sends a Proxy-Connection: close header back to a client should it > also be closing the TCP connection?
Yes, this is what the above header signals. The connection will be closed after this response. > I have an instance where Squid-2.4S7 forwards a 302 redirect back to the > client with the Proxy-Connection: close but doesn't shut down the TCP > connection for another 15 minutes. Then I would recommend upgrading to verify that you are not looking at a old and since long fixed problem. A lot has happened in the 1.5 years since 2.4.STABLE7 was released. > There is no Content-Length header in the 302 redirect received from the web > server, and in turn there is no Content-Length header that is passed to the > client. There should not be any. 302 responses should have pretty minimal headers. > I would normally say that the tcp connection SHOULD remain open > because the web server never closed it Connection close is negotiated separately client<->squid and squid<->server. Regards Henrik
