RE: Proxy-Connection header definition?
Yaron Goland (yarong@microsoft.com)
Wed, 27 Jan 1999 15:29:18 -0800
Sounds about right.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Slemko [mailto:marcs@znep.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 1999 1:18 AM
> To: Kalvinder Singh
> Cc: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
> Subject: Re: Proxy-Connection header definition?
>
>
> On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Kalvinder Singh wrote:
>
> > So does that mean that a proxy that knows about the Proxy-Connection
> > header should remove it from the request message and should
> not try to
> > set up a persistent connection??? Or is there another way
> that you can
> > deal with it???
>
> I guess there is a simpler way of stating this.
>
> All proxies should always strip the Proxy-Connection header
> from requests
> that are forwarded. ie. it is a hop-by-hop header. This is
> one of the
> several undocumented HTTP "must do's" that software needs to
> deal with.
>
> In addition to the above, if that proxy is capable, it can act on the
> Proxy-Connection header to control the connection between the
> client and
> the proxy as appropriate, if it wants to. It should not act on the
> Proxy-Connection header if it isn't a "real" proxy; ie. the
> client does
> not know that it is talking to a proxy.
>