Announcing LittleProxy 0.1 based on Netty

[Stephen Haberman]

> The hard part is the testing cycles. I'm thinking it might make the
> most sense to just run a server that returns that file for every
> request, completely bypassing Netty and allowing us to easily tweak
> details of the response.

Yeah, that is what netcat allowed me to do--it took the raw bytes in the
file (e.g. headers + content) and dumped them onto the wire when the
browser hit http://localhost:8080. So then I could edit the file,
run netcat, hit it with the browser, etc.

Turns out it's the HTTP version--change the first line of the response
from:

    HTTP/1.0 200 OK

To:

    HTTP/1.1 200 OK

And firefox loads it successfully now.

Makes sense, in that transfer encoding must be a HTTP 1.1 feature, and
the originating server was sending it as a HTTP 1.0 complaint request,
but the proxy upgrades it to an HTTP 1.1 request without bumping the
version number.

- Stephen