- From: Daniel DuBois <ddubois@spyglass.com>
- Date: Wed, 08 May 1996 11:38:59 -0500
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU>, John Franks <john@math.nwu.edu>
- Cc: Jim Gettys <jg@w3.org>, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
At 02:50 AM 5/2/96 -0700, Roy T. Fielding wrote:
>> I still don't understand the point of having both Connection:
>> Persistent and Connection: Keep-Alive (not to mention "Connection:
>The fear was that some existing 1.0 clients may be sending keep-alive
>to a proxy server that doesn't understand Connection, which would then
>erroneously forward it to the next inbound server, which would establish
>the keep-alive connection and result in a dead 1.0 proxy waiting for the
>close on the response. The result is that 1.0 clients must be prevented
>from using keep-alive when talking to proxies.
>[...]
> 1) Introduce a new keyword (persist) which is declared to be valid
> only when received from an HTTP/1.1 message.
Another option would be to define a rule for client like:
"Send 'Connection: keep-alive' to origin servers, and 'Connection: persist'
with a 'Presist: <hostname>' to proxies"
Then 1.0 servers could still do persistent connections with 1.1 clients
without being upgraded. And no version number-specific logic is necessary.
I have not heard of ANY 1.0 client sending Connection: headers to proxies
(except internal builds here at Spyglass where we first encountered the dead
proxy bug), so I think the above is a safe thing to do.
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the Programmer formerly known as Dan
http://www.spyglass.com/~ddubois/
Received on Wednesday, 8 May 1996 09:50:22 UTC