- From: Windes, Edwin <ewindes@spyglass.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 14:44:44 -0500
- To: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
OK, I too, am confused about why proxies MUST NOT establish persistent connections with 1.0 clients. If the client and origin server connections are handled separately, and if the proxy understands the 1.0 Keep-alive, what's the danger? > 8.1.3 Proxy Servers > > It is especially important that proxies correctly implement > the properties of the Connection header field as specified in 14.2.1. > The proxy server MUST signal persistent connections > separately with its clients and the origin servers (or other > proxy servers) that it connects to. Each persistent > connection applies to only one transport link. > > A proxy server MUST NOT establish a persistent connection > with an HTTP/1.0 client (but see RFC 2068 for information > about the Keep-Alive header implemented by many HTTP/1.0 clients).
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