- From: Hyoung-Kee Choi <hkchoi@cc.gatech.edu>
- Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 13:38:47 -0500
- To: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
"Fielding, Roy" wrote: > > The decision on when to close is left to either side. A server will > close the connection based on its resource-consumption requirements > which may vary substantially based on the type of server and the > number of clients it is intended to serve. A client will close the > connection if it is connection-limited and needs to open many other > connections, or if it just believes in being network friendly. > > Unfortunately, none of the major browsers are network friendly, > so they typically ignore the connection (not even recognizing FIN > as an event) until they later attempt to use it again. Most > general-purpose servers have a short activity time-out on > connections and will close the connection after that time-out > (typically under 10 seconds, though a high-activity server will > set this to one second or turn off persistent connections altogether). > Apache server uses 15 seconds as a default timeout and 100 connections as the number of idle persistent connections. Over 60 percent of Web servers use Apache.
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