Re: [squid-users] Zero Sized Reply

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 00:11:08 +0100 (CET)

On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Frank Neumann wrote:

> the vendor of that crazy website tracked that problem and came out with the
> conclusion that the connection from squid to the website needs to be
> persistent for the whole conversation.

Sounds like you may experiensing yet another completely broken application
which assumes one TCP connection == one client. This assumption is not
valid within HTTP.

> As squid by default tries to use persistent connections I assume that
> the website doesn't correctly implement persistence.

Probably.

> But since this used to work with squid 2.4.7 (I know that squid 2.5 is more
> strictly enforcing standards) I've got 2 questions:
> - What's the difference between squid 2.4 und 2.5 regarding this behaviour?

None that I know of.

> - Is there any chance to get this configured to work?

It depends on the nature of the brokenness in the application design.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Wed Nov 03 2004 - 16:11:14 MST

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