The Proxy-Connection header is a non standard header, but is widely
used so forming a de-facto standard.
Some proxies use the official Connection header, so we should check
for that in responses. Otherwise https connections over http proxy
fail in case the proxy sends "Connection: close" with the 407 reply.
Task-number: QTBUG-22177
Change-Id: If6cfa4ebb7ac9d97d65b6ddcc8257aee20ac0448
Reviewed-by: Peter Hartmann <peter.hartmann@nokia.com>
bool willClose;
QString proxyConnectionHeader = responseHeader.value(QLatin1String("Proxy-Connection"));
+ // Although most proxies use the unofficial Proxy-Connection header, the Connection header
+ // from http spec is also allowed.
+ if (proxyConnectionHeader.isEmpty())
+ proxyConnectionHeader = responseHeader.value(QLatin1String("Connection"));
proxyConnectionHeader = proxyConnectionHeader.toLower();
if (proxyConnectionHeader == QLatin1String("close")) {
willClose = true;