Re: [squid-users] HTTP/1.1

On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 11:25:59AM +0200, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> > Our client ask SUN to do a "performance" test, the SUN engineer told that:
> > squid is a possible bottleneck since it's translating HTTP/1.1 into HTTP/1.0
> > and HTTP/1.0 don't support persistent connections.
> >
> > I know that squid support persistent connections, but is there a way to
> > prove it. Since our developer is believing the SUN engineer and wants to
> > dump squid.
>
> All browsers on the market supports persistent connections in HTTP/1.0
> using the unofficial "Connection: keep-alive" header.
>
> To prove that persistent connections are used, you can either inspect
> the network traffic using ngrep or a similar tool, or trust the Squid
> statistics provided by the cachemgr interface.
>
> Squid is slowly approaching HTTP/1.1 compliance. The main thing which is
> missing and probits us from moving to HTTP/1.1 is support for chunked
> Transfer-Encoding.

Thanks for your fast reply. It will very difficult to convinces everyone...

If it is up to me, i don't buy SUN anymore.

regards,

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