nginx forward prxoy problem when header contains 'Proxy-Connection: keep-alive'

[Weibin Yao]

xuzheng at 2010-6-21 16:08 wrote:
> hi, when i use nginx as a forward prxoy, some page can not be 
> downloaded successfully.
> example:
> http_proxy=ip:port wget -O test.html 
> http://s1.ganjistatic1.com/css/base_ue3_house.__1276756225__.css 
> --header='Proxy-Connection: keep-alive' -S
> the received data length always less than response heade specificed 
> length, so wget will retry again and again.
> if use ie or firefox, the page load very slow, I guess the browser 
> retry many times like wget.
> but if not sent header 'Proxy-Connection: keep-alive', the page can be 
> downloaded successfully.
> Any one has idea?
Nginx does not support keepalive connection with backend server.

Maybe you should remove the header of  "proxy-connection" like this:

 proxy_set_header Proxy-Connection "";
> thanks.
>
> the nginx config file:
> server { # simple load balancing
>         listen          9681;
>         resolver  202.106.0.20;
>         location / {
>                 proxy_pass      http://$http_host$request_uri;
>         }
> }
>
> the nginx version is 0.7.65-5 ,
> os is debian Linux dev 2.6.30-1-amd64
>
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Weibin Yao