- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:07:31 -0700
- To: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Cc: Kris Zyp <kzyp@sitepen.com>, Morgan L <morganl.webkit@yahoo.com>, public-webapi@w3.org
On Mar 10, 2008, at 4:37 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: > > Kris Zyp wrote: >>>> However, there are web apps in existence (e.g., Gmail) >>>> that set the "connection: close" header to inform the >>>> user-agent that the HTTP transaction is going to take >>>> a long time. (This is also informative for the >>>> server.) This allows a user-agent to not count this >>>> connection against the RFC 2616 recommended maximum of >>>> 2 persistent connections per host. >> As far as I can tell, Firefox is the only browser that regards >> "connection: close" as an indication that the connection should not >> be counted against the connection limit > > What gives you that idea? I'm not actually sure since I don't know > the inner workings of the network code, but I have never heard of > such behavior. A commenter on this WebKit bug said so: <http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17682 >. But further testing does not seem to bear out this claim. Regards, Maciej
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