- From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:47:57 +0100
- To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Cc: Amos Jeffries <squid3@treenet.co.nz>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 09:45:03AM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > 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. I clearly understood that you wanted it that way, but I can assure you that it's not how stupid developers will expect it to work. You're aware that the HTTP specs are only read by low-level implementers like the persons on this WG. Web developers never read specs because they believe they "know" well enough unfortunately. And I'm facing them all the day. Willy
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