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Re: Keep-Alive Notes

From: Balint Nagy Endre <bne@bne.ind.eunet.hu>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 15:46:36 +0100 (MET)
To: Dave Kristol <dmk@allegra.att.com>
Cc: http WG <http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Message-Id: <194.bne@bne.ind.eunet.hu>
Dave Kristol writes:
...
> I argue, therefore, that the Keep-Alive header conveys no useful
> information and ought to be dropped.
Agree. While the connection isn't dropped by the server the client can
send more requests. The whole purpose of the Connection header in the request
is to tell the capability of the client to use presistent connections.

Andrew. (Endre Balint Nagy) <bne@bne.ind.eunet.hu>
Received on Thursday, 12 October 1995 08:01:02 UTC

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