- From: Dave Kristol <dmk@allegra.att.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 96 17:31:15 EDT
- To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
I had a bizarre thought concerning persistent connections. <asbestos> Suppose we decreed that all HTTP/1.1 agents understand persistent connections, without requiring them to pass special headers. We also grant clients and servers the right to close connections at their discretion following a request/response exchange (as we already do). Servers could, optionally, honor Connection: Keep-alive from HTTP/1.0 clients. I've probably overlooked something, but at first (and second) thought, the presence of an HTTP/1.1 protocol version in the request and response should be enough to tell a) a server that the client expects to hold the connection open b) a client that the server will try to hold the connection open. If all the proxies between a user agent and an origin server understand HTTP/1.1, the entire connection can be held open. </asbestos> Dropping the Connection header would simplify the protocol. Why not? Dave Kristol
Received on Monday, 15 April 1996 14:42:50 UTC