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RE: proxy problems

From: Xiuping Hu <xhu_at_aventail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 13:07:12 -0800

There is a timing issue when POST with 100 Continue header. I will post more
detail later.

Thanks,

Xiuping

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Xiuping Hu [mailto:xhu_at_aventail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 11:30 AM
> To: 'libcurl development'
> Subject: RE: proxy problems
>
> Hi Daniel,
>
> Thanks for your patch, I have tested this, and this is working well. It
> solved my two problems that all kept the body length not sending back.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Xiuping
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Daniel Stenberg [mailto:daniel-curl_at_haxx.se]
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 3:35 AM
> > To: libcurl development
> > Subject: Re: proxy problems
> >
> > On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Russ Freeman wrote:
> >
> > > I'm testing against authenticating proxy servers ATM. I have a Squid
> > proxy
> > > and an ISA Server proxy. I'm testing HTTP POST.
> > >
> > > When the post is sent we need to go through the authenticate phase.
> > Having
> > > stepped through the code it seems libcurl does a POST at the
> > authenticate
> > > phase with no content-length field in the header, and then it does the
> > > real-deal POST after authentication. Squid doesn't like the first HTTP
> > POST
> > > because it doesn't have a content-length.
> >
> > Thanks! You are experiencing the problem known as "issue 12". It is one
> of
> > the
> > few remaining issues in the TODO-RELEASE[*] document that I wish to have
> > fixed
> > before we release 7.11.1.
> >
> > Unfortunately, you're like the third person who reports this, and all of
> > you
> > have provided different patches to work around the problem and yet no
> one
> > has
> > reported back any feedback on my take at a serious and "correct" fix to
> > this
> > problem. I posted my suggested fix here:
> >
> > http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2004-02/0271.html
> >
> > If that patch is not the right thing, the A) I want to know and B) I
> want
> > to
> > know why! ;-)
> >
> > [*] = http://curl.haxx.se/lxr/source/TODO-RELEASE
> >
> > --
> > Daniel Stenberg -- http://curl.haxx.se/ -- http://daniel.haxx.se/
> > [[ Do not send mails to this email address. They won't reach me. ]]
Received on 2004-02-25