[squid-users] persistent connections not being utilized with Chrome

[Amos Jeffries]

On 13/01/18 03:52, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> I am noticing that my Squid 3.5.20 installation is not utilizing
> persistent connections with a Chrome browser user.  My Squid
> configuration is not disabling the default status of persistent
> connections being enabled.
> 
> I can see Chrome including "Proxy-Connection: keep-alive" in it's
> request and Squid responding with "Connection: keep-alive" but I'm only
> seeing one request being processed in each of these connections.
> 
> Looking at the network traffic, it does look like it's Squid that it
> closing the socket though.  It's the first one to send a FIN packet.
> 
> Some possibilities... are persistent connections not available for
> CONNECT requests?


What do you mean "not available for?

CONNECT can be pipelined after other requests on a persistent 
connection. But since it is a tunnel nothing can be pipelined after it.



>  I don't believe that to be the case but just want to
> confirm.  Or perhaps are persistent connections not available for
> Negotiate'd requests?

None of the things that can be negotiated save keep-alive itself have 
any relevance to persistence / pipelining. They all interact with it in 
various ways but none outright conflict.


> 
> Are there any other possible reasons that Squid would close down a
> socket that appears to be opened persistently?
> 

Yes, literally everything. Connections can be terminated for any reason 
- intentionally or not.

CONNECT tunnels specifically end when the server sends FIN to Squid or 
any type of I/O error occurs.


Amos