Re: PERSIST: propose to make default

At 5:30 PM  -0700 4/18/96, Roy T. Fielding wrote:
>> I'd probably prefer text over "1", whether it was "Connection: close" or
>> "Connection: no-keepalive" or whatever.
>
>I suppose that "close" is okay -- it just needs to be short and not likely
>to conflict with an an end-to-end header field.

I would also like to voice a vote for "close" instead of "1". "1" might be
misread as "l" by a lame programmer, and they might also try to do "2" or
something like that. Let's reduce the chance that someone will be lame on a
MUST feature.

Received on Thursday, 18 April 1996 18:24:00 UTC