[pve-devel] http protocol question

[Dietmar Maurer]

> >>Does that really mean that the client is allowed to send the POST
> >>request twice?
> 
> I don't known for POST twice on connection close, but I think I have already
> see this behaviour (not related to proxmox) with GET requests on timeout.

GET is idempotent (by definition), so that is clearly allowed (and expected).
 
> I'm also not sure that all browsers are RFC compliants ....
> 
> Maybe can you ask to question to Willy Tarreau (w at 1wt.eu) which maintain
> the haproxy project(http://haproxy.1wt.eu/). (He's very friendly and known
> deeply the http protocol)

Thank for that link. I will do some more tests today before contacting him.