proxy_pass defaulting to http 1.0

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Since proxy_pass by default uses HTTP 1.0 shouldn't it also clear the
Connection header by default?

This causes major problems for the unsuspecting reverse proxy that
encounters a .NET system.net.WebClient request. WebClient automatically
sends Connection: keep-alive even for a HTTP 1.1 request. Some calls to
WebClient#downloadFile will apparently chew up a connection in the
underlying .NET connection pool, and then WebClient will hang waiting
for a connection to free up without issuing the HTTP GET request.

The fix was to do

    proxy_set_header Connection ""

For some reason "proxy_http_version 1.1" by itself didn't do anything to
prevent the random WebClient hangs.

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