Re: Confused about persistent connection for old clients

>>>>> "EW" ==  <ewindes@spyglass.com> writes:

EW> OK, I too, am confused about why proxies MUST NOT establish
EW> persistent connections with 1.0 clients.  If the client and
EW> origin server connections are handled separately, and if the
EW> proxy understands the 1.0 Keep-alive, what's the danger?

  I believe that the intent is that the proxy server not assume
  1.1-style persistent connections.  The prohibition does not apply to
  the non-standard Keep-Alive mechanism; that is why it is noted in
  the text you quoted:

>> A proxy server MUST NOT establish a persistent connection
>> with an HTTP/1.0 client (but see RFC 2068 for information
>> about the Keep-Alive header implemented by many HTTP/1.0 clients).

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Scott Lawrence           EmWeb Embedded Server       <lawrence@agranat.com>
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