IE 5, mod_proxy, and ProxyPass

Excuse me for butting in here, but I've been tracking down problems in IE4-5.5 caching pages that they shouldn't when using ProxyPass & ProxyPassReverse. Reading all sorts of posts in Deja.com (now google) I see that IE is extremely picky, and really only pays attention to the HTTP/1.1 cache-control & expires information. I captured the headers IE we seeing and noticed that it's an HTTP/1.o header with the proper controls. So, IE ignores it.

Since proxy_http.c always issues HTTP/1.0 in it's proxy header (at least in 1.3.17, around line 469) using a static string, I tried a real Kludge of a patch. I hard coded it to HTTP/1.1 and IT WORKS. Who knows how many browsers this will break, so I don't dare release this thought into the Wild.

Is the mod_proxy development going to be able to get mod_proxy up to 1.1, or at least test to see that not too much gets broken? Then ideal solution is to pass the header properly from the original Server as to version, etc.

Thanks for your time.

S.W.
swilcoxon@iqmktg.com Received on Wed Feb 21 18:15:30 2001