Tuning the HTTP parser - The Polipo Manual
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### 3.3 Tuning the HTTP parser

As a number of HTTP servers and CGI scripts serve incorrect HTTP headers, Polipo uses a lax parser by default, meaning that incorrect HTTP headers will be ignored (with a warning). If the variable `laxHttpParser` is not set, Polipo will use a strict parser, and refuse to serve an instance unless it could parse all the headers.