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RE: Can I Force Connections To All or Some Sites To Traverse using HTTP 1.1?

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> Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:08:32 +1300

> Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
>> On 26.11.08 10:57, wiskbroom@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> 
>> Please set up your mailer to wrap lines below 80 characters per line.

How's this?

>>> I have a proxy-to-proxy setup (without ICP) and it is working wonderfully
>>> with the exception of cases whereby IE users attempt to connect to a
>>> remote Citrix server.  The odd thing is that the errors encountered do not
>>> seem to happen at all when users use Firefox.
>>>
>>> When IE initiates traffic to the Citrix site, it uses HTTP 1.0, somewhere
>>> along the way, the Citrix site (or other Proxy, which I have no control
>>> nor ability to see into) returns HTTP 1.1 traffic.  At this point, the 1.1
>>> trafic arrives back to my proxy, converting it back to the original HTTP
>>> 1.0 format before it passes the traffic back to IE user.
>> 
>> Server must not return HTTP/1.1 traffic for HTTP/1.0 request. If it does,
>> it's broken.
>> 
>>> So it appears that my Squid proxy tries to convert to HTTP 1.0, but only
>>> for IE sessions as Firefox users never have these issues, also Firefox
>>> uses 1.1 anyhow, thus not requiring any conversions.
>>>
>>> Any thoughts?  Is there any way to force or preserve the HTTP protocol
>>> version to 1.1 on all connections, or preferably on a destination basis?
>> 
>> Squid is not HTTP/1.1 server, it's only HTTP/1.0. So, it does not convert
>> HTTP/1.1 requests. 
> 
> Squid has many hacks to cope with broken servers, HTTP/1.1 responders 
> included.

Would server_http11 off work in this case?

> This appears to be a bug in IE with it not including such hacks to cope 
> with 1.1 response to its 1.0 mode requests.

Is there a solution for this problem?

Thank you all,

.vp

PS I am using Stable Squid 2.7.STABLE5.



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