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--- $ nc proxy 3128 GET http://www.vuurwerk.nl/vreemdeberichten HTTP/1.0 HTTP/1.0 301 Moved Permanently Server: WN/2.0.5 Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 22:26:22 GMT Content-Type: text/html Location: http://www.vuurwerk.nl/vreemdeberichten/ Age: 0 X-Cache: MISS from zopie.attic.vuurwerk.nl Proxy-Connection: close [connection stays open here] and: --- $ nc www.vuurwerk.nl 80 GET /vreemdeberichten HTTP/1.0 Host: www.vuurwerk.nl HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Server: WN/2.0.5 Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 22:26:54 GMT Content-type: text/html Location: http://www.vuurwerk.nl/vreemdeberichten/ [connection gets closed automatically and immediately here] --- Netscape won't mind here. Lynx will choke and wait for the connection to timeout, in the first case. I don't know where the bug is exactly, it could be because www.vuurwerk.nl actually does keepalive for redirects but not really for normal requests. Greetz, Peter. -- <squeezer> AND I AM GONNA KILL MIKE | Peter van Dijk <squeezer> hardbeat, als je nog nuchter bent: | peter@attic.vuurwerk.nl <squeezer> @date = localtime(time); | realtime security d00d <squeezer> $date[5] += 2000 if ($date[5] < 37); | <squeezer> $date[5] += 1900 if ($date[5] < 99); | * blah *Received on Tue Jan 19 1999 - 15:09:38 MST
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