- From: Ari Luotonen <luotonen@netscape.com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 12:16:59 -0800 (PST)
- To: Lorenzo Vicisano <vicisano@iet.unipi.it>
- Cc: http-wg mailing list <http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
I'm all for addition of Proxy-Connection: keep-alive to the spec; more specifically: - if there are no proxies involved, everything's normal - if the client talks to a proxy, it *never* sends a Connection: keep-alive - if the client talks to a proxy and wants a persistent connection, it will send Proxy-Connection: keep-alive; the proxy can still respond with Connection: keep-alive - a proxy can now independently support Connection: keep-alive between itself and the servers, and itself and the client - the proxy will intercept a Connection: keep-alive received from a remote, as it is a reaction to the Connection: keep-alive sent by itself, and should not be forwarded to the client - a proxy will generate a new Connection: keep-alive to the client as a response to Proxy-Connection: keep-alive This way, there is never a case where a client talking to an old proxy server would fool it to forward the Connection: keep-alive to the remote, and then the remote would respond with it, but the proxy would close the connection in between. Cheers, -- Ari Luotonen ari@netscape.com Netscape Communications Corp. http://home.netscape.com/people/ari/ 501 East Middlefield Road Mountain View, CA 94043, USA Netscape Server Development Team
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