> I'm all for addition of Proxy-Connection: keep-alive to the spec; more > specifically: In a word, NO. It does not adequately take into account the presence of hierarchical proxies, nor does it help with gateways. The only way to differentiate communication capabilities is through the protocol name + version number, since that is the only feature that cannot be passed on by a proxy. Things will improve with HTTP/1.1 in terms of communication rules, but we are not going to add another proxy header hack when it won't be sufficient anyway. ...Roy T. Fielding Department of Information & Computer Science (fielding@ics.uci.edu) University of California, Irvine, CA 92717-3425 fax:+1(714)824-4056 http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/Received on Friday, 17 November 1995 14:00:43 UTC
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