The Proxy-Status HTTP Header Field
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HTTP                                                       M. Nottingham
Internet-Draft                                                    Fastly
Intended status: Standards Track                               P. Sikora
Expires: November 3, 2019                                         Google
                                                             May 2, 2019

                   The Proxy-Status HTTP Header Field
                   draft-ietf-httpbis-proxy-status-00

Abstract

   This document defines the Proxy-Status HTTP header field to convey
   the details of errors generated by HTTP intermediaries.

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   _RFC EDITOR: please remove this section before publication_

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   Working Group information can be found at https://httpwg.org/ [2];
   source code and issues list for this draft can be found at
   https://github.com/httpwg/http-extensions/labels/proxy-status [3].

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     1.1.  Notational Conventions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   2.  The Proxy-Status HTTP Header Field  . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     2.1.  Generic Proxy Status Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   3.  Proxy Status Types  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     3.1.  DNS Timeout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     3.2.  DNS Error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     3.3.  Destination Not Found . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     3.4.  Destination Unavailable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     3.5.  Destination IP Prohibited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     3.6.  Destination IP Unroutable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     3.7.  Connection Refused  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     3.8.  Connection Terminated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     3.9.  Connection Timeout  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     3.10. Connection Read Timeout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     3.11. Connection Write Timeout  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     3.12. Connection Limit Reached  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     3.13. HTTP Response Status  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     3.14. HTTP Incomplete Response  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     3.15. HTTP Protocol Error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     3.16. HTTP Response Header Block Too Large  . . . . . . . . . .  10
     3.17. HTTP Response Header Too Large  . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
     3.18. HTTP Response Body Too Large  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
     3.19. HTTP Response Transfer-Coding Error . . . . . . . . . . .  11
     3.20. HTTP Response Content-Coding Error  . . . . . . . . . . .  11
     3.21. HTTP Response Timeout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
     3.22. TLS Handshake Error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
     3.23. TLS Untrusted Peer Certificate  . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
     3.24. TLS Expired Peer Certificate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
     3.25. TLS Unexpected Peer Certificate . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
     3.26. TLS Unexpected Peer Identity  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13

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