Re: Rechartering HTTPbis

In message <20120125093543.GB2413@1wt.eu>, Willy Tarreau writes:

>> I would add a new header that tells how many seconds the connection
>> can be idle before it is closed.  A value of zero has same semantics
>> as "Connection: close" has today.
>
>[...] the client expecting everyone in the whole chain
>to respect their timers.

I didn't say that the timer would be respected, I said that it would
be communicated.  It can at best be a hint, and everybody are entitled
to close whenever they feel like.

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Received on Wednesday, 25 January 2012 09:45:38 UTC