A bug reported on the debian package. He's got a point: On Thu 14 Mar 2002, Thorsten Gunkel wrote:
> Package: wwwoffle > Version: 2.7-1 > > | $ export http_proxy="http://localhost:8080/"; > | $ wget www.debian.org > | --10:24:00-- http://www.debian.org:80/ > | => `index.html.1' > | Connecting to localhost:8080... connected! > | Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK > | Length: unspecified [text/html] > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > | > | 0K -> .......... .... > | > | 10:24:03 (5.09 KB/s) - `index.html.1' saved [14535] > > But afterwards: > > | $ wget www.debian.org > | --10:24:13-- http://www.debian.org:80/ > | => `index.html.2' > | Connecting to localhost:8080... connected! > | Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK > | Length: 14,535 [text/html] > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I've verified that wwwoffle doesn't report the length if the object's not in the cache; first time it's not in the cache, second time it is. $ telnet localhost 8080 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. HEAD http://www.debian.org/ HTTP/1.0 HTTP/1.0 200 OK Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 14:32:04 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.9 (Unix) Debian/GNU PHP/4.0.3pl1 Content-Location: index.en.html Vary: negotiate,accept-language TCN: choice Cache-Control: max-age=86400 Expires: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 14:32:04 GMT Last-Modified: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 12:31:20 GMT ETag: "2353ad-38c7-3c8df518;3c8ff16f" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Type: text/html Content-Language: en Connection: close Proxy-Connection: close ---------------------------------------------------------------------- $ telnet localhost 8080 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. HEAD http://www.debian.org/ HTTP/1.0 HTTP/1.0 200 OK Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 14:32:04 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.9 (Unix) Debian/GNU PHP/4.0.3pl1 Content-Location: index.en.html Vary: negotiate,accept-language TCN: choice Cache-Control: max-age=86400 Expires: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 14:32:04 GMT Last-Modified: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 12:31:20 GMT ETag: "2353ad-38c7-3c8df518;3c8ff16f" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Type: text/html Content-Language: en Content-Length: 14534 Connection: close Proxy-Connection: close Connection closed by foreign host. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is unexpected, I'd say. Of course the Length header is not a compulsory header, but it's useful to see whether the object you're trying to download is 100k or 10000k. Paul Slootman
