>> I tried using the "SetEnv proxy-nokeepalive 1" option in httpd.conf, >> and it cleared up the proxy errors that I was having with an IIS >> backend server, and it may have decreased the proxy errors with Apache >> backend servers as well. >> >> I tried again without the proxy-nokeepalive option, and the proxy >> errors increased. Put it back, they decreased dramatically again. >> >> Turns out that mod_proxy always sends "Connection: Keep-Alive", but >> with "proxy-nokeepalive 1", mod_proxy will always send "Connection: >> Close". >> >> The backends in my case are all responding with "Connection: Close", >> so the backends aren't even allowing Keep-Alives, regardless of >> whether mod_proxy sends "Connection: Close" or "Connection: >> Keep-Alive". > > So you have either set > > force-proxy-request-1.0 and thus are doing HTTP/1.0 requests to your > backend or > your backend has keepalives disabled.
No, like I said above, I'm using "proxy-nokeepalive" to force mod_proxy to send "Connection: Close".
