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Re: [core] Stateless proxy and 5.04 (Gateway Timeout)

Klaus Hartke <hartke@projectcool.de> Wed, 20 November 2019 14:11 UTC

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Subject: Re: [core] Stateless proxy and 5.04 (Gateway Timeout)
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Christian Amsüss wrote:
> I would not expect a stateless proxy to generate 5.04 errors after a
> timeout after sending a request.

RFC 7252 [1] is actually quite strict on that, though:

   If the request to the destination times out, then a 5.04 (Gateway
   Timeout) response MUST be returned.

It seems we need to override that MUST if we want to allow "stateless"
intermediaries...

Klaus

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7252#section-5.7.1

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