- From: Jeffrey Mogul <mogul@pa.dec.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Oct 95 16:07:51 MDT
- To: "Eric W. Sink" <eric@rafiki.spyglass.com>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Just to confirm: Spyglass Mosaic ignores the Keep-Alive header
entirely. The Connection: Keep-Alive header was sufficient.
Let me try to summarize:
(1) Roy insists that the name of the header which carries the
"timeout" and "max" values is named "Keep-Alive", and nothing
I can do will change his mind :-).
(2) The Spyglass browser ignores this header, the NCSA browser
apparently ignores it, and nobody else's browser seems to pay
any attention, either.
(3) Roy tried to sneak past us a new mechanism that allows the
server to tell the client what state it will maintain between
requests on the same connection.
Let me suggest that:
(a) We all agree with Roy on #1.
(b) Since nobody actually uses that header, and nobody seems
to be able to describe a useful use, we declare it to be a
noble but failed experiment, and leave it out of HTTP 1.1,
and retire the name "Keep*alive", so as to avoid any confusion.
(c) The "stored-state" stuff ought to be carried in a new header
named "Stored-state".
-Jeff
Received on Friday, 20 October 1995 16:18:24 UTC