- From: John Franks <john@math.nwu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 09:08:08 -0500 (CDT)
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU>
- Cc: Dave Kristol <dmk@allegra.att.com>, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
On Mon, 15 Apr 1996, Roy T. Fielding wrote: > One problem is that there is a cost associated with holding a > connection open on the server. If the client knows that it will > not be reusing the connection after the current request, then not > asking for persistence means that the server can switch its process > resources to a new connection immediately after sending the last > response (as opposed to waiting for the close or timeout from the > client). > Perhaps there could be a "Connection: non-persistant" header. It makes sense to have the most common situation be the default (requiring no header) and add a header for the exceptional or at less common behavior. John Franks Dept of Math. Northwestern University john@math.nwu.edu
Received on Tuesday, 16 April 1996 07:12:26 UTC