- From: BearHeart / Bill Weinman <bearheart@bearnet.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 12:46:38 -0600
- To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
I would like to suggest a couple of things for the persistent session spec: 1) A specification for a CGI variable that would indicate to a CGI program that a session is persistent. Perhaps called SERVER_CONNECTION it would have the content of the *server's* Connection: header for the last transaction. Using this with the HTTP_CONNECTION variable would allow a CGI program to determine if it's dealing with a persistent connection. This information would be useful for CGI state management. 2) A method for a CGI program to originate request for a persistent connection. Simply make the protocol bi-directional. If the server originates a "Connection: persist" to the client, the client may respond back with "Connection: persist" and the exchanges could continue as already specified. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | BearHeart / Bill Weinman | BearHeart@bearnet.com | http://www.bearnet.com/ | Author of The CGI Book -- http://www.bearnet.com/cgibook/
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