Re: [squid-users] "Accept-Encoding" header

yes.

Regards
Henrik

Slava Bizyayev wrote:
>
> May I consider the any version of Squid never uses HTTP/1.1 for outbound
> requests?
>
> Thanks,
> Slava
>
> From: "Henrik Nordstrom" <hno@squid-cache.org>
>
> > Slava Bizyayev wrote:
> >
> > > Here we see that Squid received the HTTP/1.1 request and transferred it
> as
> > > HTTP/1.0 to the following (MS) Proxy.
> > >
> > > As far as I understand the logics of proxy, it should make the reverse
> > > protocol transformation for outbound response. Am I right?
> >
> > A HTTP proxy must downgrade requests and replies to the highest HTTP
> > version it supports. Squid is a HTTP/1.0 proxy with support for many
> > features from HTTP/1.1.
> >
> > > The possible upgrade of the HTTP version seems very unsafe for the
> > > request processing. For example, MSIE-6.0 could be configured to work
> > > HTTP/1.0 for some special reason.
> >
> > Any proxy doing upgrades of requests to a higher version than supported
> > by the requesting browser must also do downgrades of replies. Messy
> > business indeed, but needed for proper caching of results in HTTP/1.1.
> >
> > If you consider that there may be a mix of HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1 clients
> > accessing the same cache you see why a HTTP/1.1 proxy cache needs to
> > update all requests to HTTP/1.1, and why the same cache must also be
> > fully prepared to downgrade any cached replies (both cached and
> > uncached, no difference) to the level supported by the requestor..
> >
> > Regards
> > Henrik
> >
Received on Thu Jun 20 2002 - 00:55:22 MDT