LITA Regional Institute: Proxy Web Servers and Authentication
San Antonio, TX February 22, 2001
Proxy Web Servers and Authentication > How Proxies Work > Overview of HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1 protocols
Format of Proxy Request messages
- Similar to requests to the origin server, except that the method and host/port are included in the request
- Specialized proxy-related headers can also be used.
- Request lines have the form: <Method> <Address> <Protocol-Version>
- GET http://www.college.edu/site-map.html HTTP/1.0
- Host: www.college.edu
- Cache-control: no-cache
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