- From: Joris Dobbelsteen <joris.dobbelsteen@mail.com>
- Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 14:59:34 +0200
- To: "WWW WG (E-mail)" <http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com>
> -----Original Message----- > From: John C. Mallery [mailto:jcma@ai.mit.edu] > Sent: zaterdag 2 september 2000 4:20 > To: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com > Subject: Proxy-connection > > > Can anybody give me a url to some documentation on this header, > and especially, how to get http 1.0 clients to do some rudimentary > persistence on requests through a 1.1 proxy? RFC2616 also explains this header. It is actually the same as the connection header, but specially for proxies. However I don't know why they needed Proxy-Connection, maybe because some proxies did not know/understand this header and have the orgin server not to respond to it. * HTTP/1.0 default closes the connection, unless explicitly requested by the client to keep the line open (alive). * HTTP/1.1 keeps the connection alive, unless explicitly mentioned by the client/server to close the connection. Maybe that some responces require the connecton to be closed. I thought there is another RFC handling persistent connections for HTTP/1.0 (extension to the standard). Maybe it doesn't exist, but I think it does..... - Joris
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