Hi,

In message <_A3706@delegate-en.ML_> on 04/13/07(23:03:45)
you "lhwork" <ppihabdyi-mxhgu46iqh3w.ml@delegate.org> wrote:
 |I'm testing Delegate v9.5.6 on Windows with Firefox. My main Delegate
 |settings:
 |-P8080 SERVER=http HTTPCONF=kill-qhead:Via CACHE=no RESOLV=dns
 |
 |Firefox sends the next HTTP headers to Delegate:
 |Keep-Alive: 300
 |Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
 |
 |But Delegate filters out these two headers and does not send a Connection:
 |keep-alive to the destination web server and I see 'IGNORE request:
 |Keep-Alive: 300' in the log.
 |
 |Does this mean that Delegate does not support Keep-Alive HTTP connections?
 |If it does, how can I turn it on?

Connection, Proxy-Connection and Keep-Alive are "hop-by-hop" headers
which MUST NOT be forwarded.
Connections are kept-alive by default in HTTP/1.1 without these headers,
and Keep-Alive and Proxy-Connection are obsoleted.
See the RFC of HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/1.0 for more details.
Anyway, DeleGate supports Keep-Alive with clients and servers, both in
HTTP/1.1 without these headers, and in HTTP/1.0 with these headers
for backward compatibility.

 |I'd like to forward all HTTP requests through a SOCKS proxy (with
 |SOCKS=host:port/-4r). Does Delegate keep the connections alive in this case,
 |too (if it supports Keep-Alive HTTP connections)?

It does not affect the behavior of DeleGate as a HTTP proxy.

Cheers,
Yutaka
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