- From: Jeffrey Mogul <mogul@pa.dec.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Feb 96 11:56:51 PST
- To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
I don't believe you are allowed to send a second request on a
persistent connection before you get a complete reply.
It is somewhat more complex than this. Our subgroup's consensus is
Persistent connections are meant in part to support pipelining
of requests and responses. However, a client MUST NOT pipeline
its requests until the server has indicated that it will create
a persistent connection. We believe that otherwise, certain
servers or proxies could become confused. We will allow a client
to remember that a given server has recently allowed persistent
connections (say, within the past 1 day).
Given the last sentence, most of the time the client probably
WILL be sending multiple requests without intervening replies.
-Jeff
Received on Thursday, 15 February 1996 12:04:16 UTC