thnx for your reply Matus Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 27.11.08 15:02, Joar Jegleim wrote: >> I've been debugging a problem with a soap app (cognos planning) which >> brakes when being run through our squid 3.0 proxy . > >> After tcpdumping the whole session and investigating with wireshark it >> seems to me that the following happens >> 1. client performs a 'GET' in HTTP 1.1 to the proxy >> 2. the proxy then performs this GET against the app server, but now it's >> in HTTP 1.0 > > Yes, because squid only supports HTTP/1.0 > >> 3. the app server replies in HTTP 1.1 which in turn squid > > The application is broken, because it must not answer in HTTP/1.1 for > HTTP/1.0 request further investigation shows that a HTTP/1.1 request from the client is stopped at squid with a 411 error in access.log. This request never reaches the app server. I suspect the client using chunked encoding and squid replies with a 411 'try again with content length'. > >> 2.: I thought by configuring squid to 'always_direct' sessions to the >> app server that squid is transparent in between the client and the app >> server. As of now it seems to me that, even with bypassing squid, squid >> fiddles with the HTTP version in the GET's being performed resulting in >> the application breaking. E.G. to make this work the application must >> be rewritten to support giving 'content length' in those GET's where >> squid gives a 411 > > you aren't bypassing squid with always_direct. the always_direct is SQUID > directive not to use any parent proxies, but the squid is already processing > the request. ok, but is there any directive in squid to just pass on requests without changing the original request ? regards Joar Jegleim