2011/5/16 Justin Erenkrantz <jus...@erenkrantz.com>: > So...at my hotel in Ljubljana, they have a silly Squid proxy that > doesn't understand chunked request bodies. I know this has been a > huge detriment for some people with serf - so, here's a patch for serf > that will try to send C-L bodies for basic HTTP request bodies. With > this patch, ra_serf only sends C-L...however, the hotel's version of > Squid (squid/2.7.STABLE9) doesn't understand chunked *response* bodies > either. So, it ends up "Connection: close"-ing after *every single > request*. Needless to say, serf's not amused - it still works just > fine; but it's pretty slow as it has to constantly re-open TCP > connections. There's nothing serf can do about directly controlling > the server-side's logic to avoid chunking responses.
HTTP/1.0 does not support keep-alive, and thus the connection will be closed after each request. You will need HTTP/1.1 to keep the connection open. Maybe you are able to connect with HTTPS? Quick look at the docs says that HTTP/1.1 is disabled in Squid 2.7 by default and its implementation "is still incomplete" [1]. Squid 3.x should behave better. [1] http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/server_http11/ I am not a Squid admin, but just verifying my own worries about that product. > > So, I'm on the fence about cleaning up and applying this patch as I > think if you're talking to a dumb HTTP proxy, you're likely going to > run into other serious issues. > > Thoughts? -- justin > Best regards, Konstantin Kolinko Sending from dev@subversion. I see that serf-dev@ is also on CC list.
