Re: [squid-users] Squid http1.1 vs http1.0 (probably again)

Amos Jeffries wrote:
>> So I've discovered that much of my connection stacking is due to Squid
>> responding as 1.0 for everything, this has also caused some issues in
>> my app.
>>
>> So before I abandon squid, since we must use gzip encoding and various
>> other 1.1 specific features, I'm wondering if there is a way to
>> capture and pass on the clients http version thru to my backend
>> server..
>>
>> Since Squid is responding to the backend, regardless of the client
>> query as 1.0, our servers can't do many of the nice 1.1 features that
>> we would like to..
>>
>> So is there a way to capture and have squid rewrite the request so
>> that my server knows the client made the request using http 1.1, so
>> that it can respond in kind, regardless of how $#%$ squid is
>> responding as 1.0 (sorry new issue that wasn't uncovered until today
>> and it really sucks)..
>>
>> I've looked all over and the 1.1 vs 1.0 appears to be a decent battle
>> inside the Squid developers "Or maybe all my reading is based on early
>> conflicts and this has been resolved in a later version that i'm not
>> running?!"
>
> Depends on your squid release.
> As a developer I have not seen any of this reported battle in the last
> year. The current team are all either agnostic or working on HTTP/1.1 in
> new code and some patching of old code. It's just the HTTP/1.1 checklist
> of changes from 1.0 being so huge its taking a while to work through as a
> side-job.
>
> If you really need it for a business issue, we can do with some
> sponsorship for the HTTP/1.1 project. That would kick the support you need
> into a priority and get it fixed early.
>

Aha, I knew this was around somewhere.
This is effectively the TODO list for HTTP/1.1 compliance if you are
interested in sponsoring anyone to help with it:
http://www.squid-cache.org/bugs/showdependencytree.cgi?id=411&hide_resolved=1

Amos

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