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From: Joe McIlvain <joe.eli.mac@gmail.com>
To: unicorn-public@bogomips.org
Subject: Support for HTTP/1.0
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2016 10:30:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPGBM9b9Y2LHrdaUbsZX4rZfRh2xUJeb8Z3kfE9zQkn6jz9V4A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

We work on an IoT-oriented web service that uses Unicorn.  One of our
requirements is to support HTTP/1.0 for low-complexity devices.

We've noticed that HTTP/1.0 requests to Unicorn always get HTTP/1.1
responses, which is invalid behaviour for the HTTP/1.0 protocol.

Sure enough, looking through the Unicorn source I see that the
"HTTP/1.1" protocol is hard-coded in the response writing logic:
https://github.com/defunkt/unicorn/blob/a72d2e7fbd13a6bfe64b79ae361c17ea568d4867/lib/unicorn/http_response.rb#L30

When behind our nginx/haproxy frontend, this behaviour is a little
more sneaky.  For "short" response payloads, the proxy will override
the response and always (correctly) use HTTP/1.0.  However, for "long"
response payloads, the content encoding is "chunked" and the proxy
will use "HTTP/1.1"

You can actually see this bug in action in the GitHub API (a prominent
web service using Unicorn).  If you send `curl -v --http1.0
https://api.github.com/gists/public`, you will get an HTTP/1.1 chunked
response, which an HTTP/1.0 client cannot handle.

I've experimented with using puma instead of unicorn, and it behaves
correctly in this respect (it responds to HTTP/1.0 requests with
HTTP/1.0 responses).  However we'd like to keep using unicorn if
possible.

Does Unicorn intend to support HTTP/1.0?

             reply	other threads:[~2016-11-01 17:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-01 17:30 Joe McIlvain [this message]
2016-11-01 18:11 ` Support for HTTP/1.0 Eric Wong
2016-11-11  7:07   ` Eric Wong

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