- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:45:03 +0000
- To: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
- cc: Amos Jeffries <squid3@treenet.co.nz>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
In message <20120125093543.GB2413@1wt.eu>, Willy Tarreau writes: >> I would add a new header that tells how many seconds the connection >> can be idle before it is closed. A value of zero has same semantics >> as "Connection: close" has today. > >[...] the client expecting everyone in the whole chain >to respect their timers. I didn't say that the timer would be respected, I said that it would be communicated. It can at best be a hint, and everybody are entitled to close whenever they feel like. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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