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HTTP::Proxy::HeaderFilter::standard(3pm)		User Contributed Perl Documentation		  HTTP::Proxy::HeaderFilter::standard(3pm)

NAME
       HTTP::Proxy::HeaderFilter::standard - An internal filter to respect RFC2616

DESCRIPTION
       This is an internal filter used by HTTP::Proxy to enforce behaviour compliant with RFC 2616.

METHOD
       This filter implements a single method that is called automatically:

       filter()
	   Enforce RFC 2616-compliant behaviour, by adding the "Via:" and "X-Forwarded-For:" headers (except when the proxy was instructed not to
	   add them), decrementing the "Max-Forwards:" header and removing the hop-by-hop and LWP::UserAgent headers.

SEE ALSO
       HTTP::Proxy, HTTP::Proxy::HeaderFilter, RFC 2616.

AUTHOR
       Philippe "BooK" Bruhat, <book@cpan.org>.

       Thanks to Gisle Aas, for directions regarding the handling of the hop-by-hop headers.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright 2003-2005, Philippe Bruhat.

LICENSE
       This module is free software; you can redistribute it or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

perl v5.12.4							    2011-07-03				  HTTP::Proxy::HeaderFilter::standard(3pm)