Hi,

I am investigating an issue with HTTP proxy and asking myself why curl behaves the way it behaves. I am using curl 7.34.0 from master and this is my usecase:

I am retrieving a resource [1] over Subversion 1.8.x and the included serf 1.3.x dies in an endless loop [2]. Examing in Wireshark reveils that a CONNECT happens, the proxy (MS Forefront TMG) responds with 407 AND Connection: close. The client aborts the CONNECT, closes the TCP connection and starts over and over again. Doing the same with curl works flawlessly.

So my question is: Why does curl simply retain the connection although closed by the proxy server and keeps going? (Trace files available). I presume that curl's behavior is correct but why?

Thanks,

Michael

[1] https://svn.java.net/svn/jax-ws-commons~svn/trunk/jaxws-maven-plugin/
[2] http://code.google.com/p/serf/issues/detail?id=123
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Received on 2013-12-04