Re: [squid-users] Weird bytes size for "CONNECT"

From: Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:12:50 +1300

On 27.03.2012 17:26, Pieter De Wit wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am currently using Squid to proxy a web based training product and
> have noticed that the content length seems to be "0" (Yes, the
> example
> shows bytes, but it way more than that)
>
> 1332822131.951 311020 127.0.0.1 TCP_MISS/200 8470 CONNECT
> 216.115.208.199:443 - DIRECT/216.115.208.199 -
>
> The server is showing a connection flow of around 40k/sec. I am not
> sure if this is a control connection or something along those line. I
> will see when the training is completed but I was wondering if
> someone
> else has seen this ?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Pieter

Yes.

Content-Length on CONNECT is pretty much meaningless. Since
Content-Length is a HTTP detail and the "body" portion of a CONNECT
request is a two-way tunnel with arbitrary data inside.

Amos
Received on Tue Mar 27 2012 - 21:12:55 MDT

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