Does anyone know what the behaviour of Apache 1.3 is
under the circumstances where the HTTP request or
response contains an invalid request header?
Specifically, when the Connection header contains
something other than 'close'?
There is nothing invalid about that -- connection is completely
extensible.
It appears to immediately close the connection - can
anyone confirm or deny that this is Apache's behaviour
for both requests and responses?
It does not close the connection on that basis. What you are
probably seeing is a server that is configured with keepalive off,
in which case all connections are closed regardless of what is
received in Connection.
....Roy
