- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2011 11:21:17 +1100
- To: Amos Jeffries <squid3@treenet.co.nz>
- Cc: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
On 29/11/2011, at 5:01 PM, Amos Jeffries wrote: > How about is for prose: > " > Proxy-Connection is now obsolete. Clients must not produce it on HTTP/1.1 requests or responses. Yes, with editorial niggles. I think this is roughly what we have now. > NP: existing software still uses a mixture of HTTP/1.0 and obsolete Proxy-Connection keep-alive mechanisms which differ in behaviour from HTTP/1.1. Clients should always explicitly send Connection: keep-alive or Connection: close when contacting servers having HTTP/1.0 or unknown HTTP version numbers. That's too strong; we shouldn't require use of HTTP/1.0 mechanisms, as some implementations might make reasonable decisions to not use pconns with 1.0 servers. Besides, connection: close is the default with 1.0 anyway, so there's not reason to mention it here. I'd really rather not get into specifying the keep-alive mechanism in HTTP/1.1, because it's deprecated, and difficult to correctly specify. Mentioning it is fine, but putting requirements around it is too much. Cheers, -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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