What does this W3's suggestion mean please?!
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Hi everyone. I need to know what it means:
HTTP/1.1 proxies MUST parse the Connection header field before a message is forwarded and, for each connection-token in this field, remove any header field(s) from the message with the same name as the connection-token.
Does it mean that the Proxy Server MUST remove the Connection: keep-alive and Proxy-Connection: keep-alive before forwarding the message to the remote server?!
Sojaner!
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Hi everyone. I need to know what it means:
HTTP/1.1 proxies MUST parse the Connection header field before a message is forwarded and, for each connection-token in this field, remove any header field(s) from the message with the same name as the connection-token.
Does it mean that the Proxy Server MUST remove the Connection: keep-alive and Proxy-Connection: keep-alive before forwarding the message to the remote server?!
Sojaner!
I assume it means that custom tokens are supported for Connection:, and that these may also appear as custom headers. For example: Connection: DoWhatISay DoWhatISay: something goes here... A proxy must take every token appearing in the Connection header, and then remove any header lines that *begin* with that token. In this case, it must strip the DoWhatISay header out (and, I assume, the Connection).