Re: pipelined client/server behaviour

Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Streaming media (and streaming Javascript!) origin servers can signal
> that already with "Connection: close".  The client is informed immediately
> that it must resend later requests on another connection, and that
> it's safe to repeat them because they won't be processed on this
> connection.
>
>   
some proxies in their desire to keep persistent connections with clients 
open as long as possible will convert a length-unspecified response with 
Connection: close into chunked data with Proxy-Connection: keep-alive.

so you can't rely on that getting back to the client.

Adrien