[rabbitmq-discuss] HTTP (was Re: Wild Rabbits)

Mon Dec 3 15:04:53 GMT 2007

David Pollak wrote:
> I'm not sure that works so well.  Many corporate firewalls have HTTP
> proxies.  They expect well formed HTTP. 

One thing I've been thinking about for a little while now is use of
HTTP/1.1's "Upgrade" header - cf. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2817.txt.

A normal HTTP/1.1 request could arrive at an HTTP-speaking port, and
through use of the "Upgrade" header, we could switch to AMQP.

Would the proxies filter out the "Upgrade" header, do you think?

Regards,
  Tony
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