I'm making a proxy which sits between the browser and the web. There's a snippet of code I can't seem to get to work. #send request to web server web_client.send(request) #signal client is done with sending web_client.shutdown(1) If I use shutdown(1), the proxy has a great improvement in performance and speed. However, some web servers do not send responses if I use shutdown. Console output: request sent to host wix.com got response packet of len 0 got response packet of len 0 breaking loop and the browser displays The connection was reset The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading. However, if I remove shutdown(1), there are no problems of sort. Console output: got response packet of len 1388 got response packet of len 1388 got response packet of len 1388 got response packet of len 989 got response packet of len 0 got response packet of len 0 breaking loop and the browser normally displays the website. Why is this happening? This is only happening on certain hosts. Continue reading...
