On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 16:54 +0200, Roland Weber wrote:
> Hi Asankha,
> 
> > and am currently only interested 
> > in simple proxying, and thus should be able to do what I want with the 
> > Proxy-Connection directive.
> 
> I'm not sure what you want to do with that directive (header?).
> Actually, I hacen't heard about it until now, it is not a
> standard header.

It is not, but it is being widely used by various proxies to control
proxy connection persistence.  

Oleg

> When sending a request via proxy instead of directly to the
> target, there are some details to be considered. For HTTP/1.1,
> you must put an absolute URL into the request line rather than
> just the path as recommended for direct requests. Then connect
> to the proxy instead of the target and you should be fine.
> 
> Things get ugly when you have to tunnel HTTPS through proxies,
> and worse when you have to authenticate against the proxy.
> 
> cheers,
>   Roland
> 
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