Re: Keep-Alive and 'max'

On 3/23/2012 10:57 PM, Martin Thomson wrote:

> Having seen this in the wild makes me a little reluctant to just
> deprecate this out of hand.  However, the only conceivable use I can
> think of is to prevent clients from pipelining a bazillion[2] requests
> to a server.

right, and fwiw on friday I commited code to mozilla to honor the max 
header when considering pipeline depth. It shows up quite commonly on 
apache sites, though I don't think it is really to the server's 
advantage to ever send it.

Received on Saturday, 24 March 2012 17:21:05 UTC