Re: WGLC p1: proxy handling of a really bad Content-Length
Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> Tue, 07 May 2013 04:45 UTC
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Subject: Re: WGLC p1: proxy handling of a really bad Content-Length
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Created as <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/482>. On 01/05/2013, at 4:43 PM, Alex Rousskov <rousskov@measurement-factory.com> wrote: > Hello, > > When talking about dealing with malformed responses, HTTPbis p1 > Section 3.3.3 says: > >> the proxy MUST discard the received response, send a 502 (Bad >> Gateway) status code as its downstream response, and then close the >> connection. > > Which connection MUST the proxy close: upstream or downstream? If you > guessed downstream because the connection must be closed only _after_ > the 502 downstream response is sent, you guessed wrong :-). > > The proxy MUST close the upstream connection and it may do that > immediately, without waiting for the 502 response to be sent on the > downstream connection. This was discussed around 2011/11/28, and I think > Mark agreed that a fix is needed but the text was never changed. > > Also, the current wording suggests sending "status code" as a response, > which is not the intent, of course. > > > Suggested fix: > > the proxy MUST close the upstream connection, discard the received > response, and send a 502 (Bad Gateway) response downstream. > > > Thank you, > > Alex. > -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
- WGLC p1: proxy handling of a really bad Content-L… Alex Rousskov
- Re: WGLC p1: proxy handling of a really bad Conte… Willy Tarreau
- Re: WGLC p1: proxy handling of a really bad Conte… Alex Rousskov
- Re: WGLC p1: proxy handling of a really bad Conte… Mark Nottingham
- #482l was: WGLC p1: proxy handling of a really ba… Julian Reschke