Re: Netscape V3.0.x has persistent connection troubles with Squid 1.2

From: Anthony Baxter <arb@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 14:34:09 +1000

>>> Stewart Forster wrote
> Netscape V3.0.x has a fairly broken implementation of persistent
> TCP connections. When this interoperates with Squid 1.2 things go bad,
> and it winds up with Squid and Netscape port hopping trying to decide
> where to send the request from, and where to receive it. A tcpdump sees
> a request from Netscape being simultaneously sent over over two different
> TCP connections from two different ports from Netscape V3.0.x. (3.0.2 is
> what I'm using).

It's either Persistent connections, or POST - the combination seems to be
a problem.

NS 3.01 is ok. NS 3.02 is bad. NS 3.04 is good.

<http://www.apache.org/docs/misc/known_client_problems.html> has some info
here...

Anthony
Received on Tue Jul 29 2003 - 13:15:49 MDT

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