- From: Ari Luotonen <luotonen@netscape.com>
- Date: Thu, 4 Sep 1997 11:39:15 -0700 (PDT)
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@kiwi.ics.uci.edu>
- Cc: josh@netscape.com, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
> >issue: keep-alives in server > > By default, persistent connections are supposed to be used in 1.1. > > When a server receives a downgraded request from a proxy, which > > came from a 1.1 client, should it respond with a connection: close? > > The downgraded request is HTTP/1.0 and will not include the keep-alive > connection directive, so the server will not establish a persistent > connection. Apache 1.2 always sends "Connection: close" on non-persistent > responses, even to normal HTTP/1.0 requests, but I don't think this > should be a requirement (just a good idea). But in HTTP/1.1, persistent connections are the default. In other words, if there's no Connection: header, it assumes keep-alive. But now the client will mistakenly think that the response is HTTP/1.1, and assumes the lack of the Connection: header to mean that keep-alive is on. Cheers, -- Ari Luotonen, Mail-Stop MV-061 Opinions my own, not Netscape's. Netscape Communications Corp. ari@netscape.com 501 East Middlefield Road http://people.netscape.com/ari/ Mountain View, CA 94043, USA Netscape Proxy Server Development
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