Full Disclosure: Re: abnormal behavior Gmail logon

[Ajay Pal Singh Atwal <ajaypal () bbsbec org>]

Should'nt the behaviour of a proxy in case of both RST and FIN should be same, i.e always a FIN. As proxy should close 
the connection **properly** even in case of a failure on the other side.

Sincerely

Ajay Pal Singh Atwal


----- David Farinic <davidfa () gfi com> wrote:
> > Servers are supposed to send RST packets when they do that, but not
> all
> > servers do it, and not all clients recognize those RST packets as
> > indicating that the document they just downloaded is incomplete
> Most of the clients do recognize and most web servers do correctly
> apply
> use of RST and FIN for TCP/IP HTTP connection ending.
>
> Problem is that some (most?)Proxy servers (nontransparent and
> probably
> also transparent)  DO NOT. 
>
> I tested 4 different proxy servers if they pass RST to client's
> browser
> when original web server sent RST. All sent FIN instead of RST :(. (I
> Did this test as I found other web apps. problems resulting from this
> proxy behavior)
>
> If anybody knows proxy which behaves 'correctly,' pls let me know.
>
>  
> Regards David Farinic 
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