Re: [squid-users] any work arounds for bug 2176

On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 12:36:12AM +1300, Amos Jeffries wrote:
>
> I've taken a good look at the trace files on this. It's clear that the
> client is in fact not sending the whole initial POST.
>
> What I see happening is that the server early response gets relayed by
> Squid and if the connection is not aborted Squid receives a small
> further portion of data from the client before it abruptly stops and
> starts sending the re-send POST with auth details.
>
> Since the client has indicated a certain length X of data then only
> sends N bytes the start of second request is lost and the server
> complains that some random bytes mid-way down the repeat POST are an
> invalid request method "verb".
>

Ah, ok. I missed that :)

> To get this going we are going to have to add to the patch a bit to make
> Squid delay the relayed reply until the initial POST is fully received.
>

Do you need help with this? I don't know the squid code but should be
able to muddle through if you can give a pointer.

> PS: This has pushed Squid very, very close to the wanted behavior for
> Expect-100 HTTP/1.1 requests/replies. Thanks guys.
>

Thanks for looking in to this.

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