Bug#389240: keep-alive vs. cups

[Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>]

Package: cupsys
Version: 1.2.2-1
Severity: normal

Perhaps this is a cups problem.

From: amb@gedanken.demon.co.uk (Andrew M. Bishop)
To: Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>

> I didn't much check but this might have something to do with
> 
>      A proxy server MUST NOT establish a HTTP/1.1 persistent connection
>      with an HTTP/1.0 client (but see RFC 2068 [33] for information and
>      discussion of the problems with the Keep-Alive header implemented by
>      many HTTP/1.0 clients).
> 
> The problem is that wget, lynx, w3m, GET(1) take the whole 60 sec.
> timeout or more to get http://localhost:631/ (cups) when going thru
> http_proxy=http://localhost:8080/

WWWOFFLE doesn't make a persistent connection with anything, client or
server.  WWWOFFLE tries to cut the connection as soon as it can.
Perhaps the error is that cups is not breaking the connection even
though WWWOFFLE asked it to (the 'Connection: close' header).
-- debconf information:
* cupsys/raw-print: false
* cupsys/ports: localhost:631
* cupsys/backend: ipp, lpd, parallel, usb
  cupsys/portserror:
* cupsys/browse: false