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

Mon Dec 3 23:36:52 GMT 2007

On 12/3/07, Tony Garnock-Jones <tonyg at lshift.net> wrote:
>
> 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?

Probably not.  That's interesting.

Regards,
>   Tony
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