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Modified: htdocs/manual/mod core.html Log: Make the keep-alive documentation more accurate. This could use some review from someone who understands these issues better than I do. Revision Changes Path 1.178 +16 -14 httpd-docs-1.3/htdocs/manual/mod/core.html Index: core.html =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/httpd-docs-1.3/htdocs/manual/mod/core.html,v retrieving revision 1.177 retrieving revision 1.178 diff -u -r1.177 -r1.178 --- core.html 2000/10/24 01:10:39 1.177 +++ core.html 2000/11/08 01:14:31 1.178 @@ -1306,21 +1306,23 @@ 1.1 and later.<P> <p>The Keep-Alive extension to HTTP/1.0 and the persistent connection -feature of <CODE>HTTP/1.1</CODE> provide long-lived HTTP sessions -which allow multiple requests to be sent over the same TCP connection. -In some cases this been shown to result in an almost 50% speedup in -latency times for HTML documents with many images.</p> +feature of HTTP/1.1 provide long-lived HTTP sessions which allow +multiple requests to be sent over the same TCP connection. In some +cases this has been shown to result in an almost 50% speedup in +latency times for HTML documents with many images. To enable +Keep-Alive connections in Apache 1.2 and later, set <code>KeepAlive +On</code>.</p> -<p>In order for Keep-Alive support to be used: -<ul> -<li>Keep-Alive support must be enabled by setting this directive -to <code>On</code>.</li> -<li>The client must support Keep-Alive requests. Most current -clients do support Keep-Alive requests.</li> -<li>The length of the file must be known in advance. This means that most -CGI scripts, server-parsed pages (SSI), and server-generated directory -listings, will not use the Keep-Alive protocol.</li> -</ul> +<p>For HTTP/1.0 clients, Keep-Alive connections will only be used if +they are specifically requested by a client. In addition, a +Keep-Alive connection with an HTTP/1.0 client can only be used when +the length of the content is known in advance. This implies that +dynamic content such as CGI output, SSI pages, and server-generated +directory listings will generally not use Keep-Alive connections to +HTTP/1.0 clients. For HTTP/1.1 clients, persistent connections are +the default unless otherwise specified. Chunked encoding will be used +in order to send content of unknown length over persistent +connections.</p> <P><STRONG>Apache 1.1</STRONG>: Set <EM>max-requests</EM> to the maximum number of requests you want Apache to entertain per
