To get around some Mac TCP/IP peculiarities, we did work out that each additional request from the client had to include the "Connection: Keep-Alive" header or the server will assume it is the last request and close connection after serving the request. That's an interesting point. Are these peculiarities are problem on the server or on the client? That is, is this necessary because the client is a Mac, or because the server is a Mac? If the former, then the spec doesn't have to require this header on every request, only "peculiar" client implementations need to send it. If the latter, then since the client does not know if the server is a Mac or no, the spec should probably require the header on every request. (On the principle that the bandwidth wasted by sending this header is less than the bandwidth saved by not closing the connection.) -JeffReceived on Friday, 20 October 1995 15:34:24 UTC
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