On 02/13/2006 07:28 PM, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > Ruediger Pluem wrote: > > The real problem is that we've never paid attention to the backend server. > If speaking to a backend http/1.0 server, we can try connection: keep-alive > if the server pays attention to it. That header is invalid for http/1.1
Out of interest which part of which rfc (2616 / 2068) says that connection: keep-alive is invalid for http/1.1? I see this header send frequently by browsers that speak http/1.1 (of course this does not mean that this is rfc compliant :-) > backends, and we should choose connection: close where appropriate. > > To a backend http/1.0 server, connection: close is meaningless (and wrong). Agreed. But I actually only do this when I sent an HTTP/1.1 request. BTW: This is how the code currently works and this is not changed by my patch. Another question: Do you see the need for some kind of detection code on the first request to a backend server whether it speaks HTTP/1.1 or only HTTP/1.0? Regards Rüdiger
