[squid-users] HTTP headers - a bit off topic

Greetings All!

What is the definition of a "correct" HTTP header?

This is going through our client's squid proxy servers and their
firewall, but squid is returning a 503 (service unavailable) error. I
suspect our firewall (the destination mentioned below in server:port) is
absorbing the request - neither accepting the command to the appropriate
service nor sending a denial back to origin. Obviously, we have the port
open for requests, but something is stopping it ...

I have the following - what is missing?

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POST http://[server:port] HTTP/1.1
Host: [server:port]
cache-Control: no-cache
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/html
content-length: [length_of_datastream]
Proxy-Authorization: Basic [username:password in base64]

datastream ...

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Thanks in anticipation

Regards,

Adam Finster
CV Computer Services Pty. Ltd.
mailto:adam@cvcomputers.com.au
http://www.cvcomputers.com.au
Tel: 07 5532 0033
Received on Fri May 16 2003 - 00:05:48 MDT