Kevin J Walters <kevin.walt...@morganstanley.com> writes:
> What's the recommended way to check for a connection having the
> property of being kept alive?
>
> I was expecting to see tests like c->keepalive == AP_CONN_KEEPALIVE
> but i see that mod_proxy.c is testing c->keepalives which is the
> incrementing counter of requests processed on that connection. Are
> those two tests equivalent and interchangeable?
>
> E.g. from 2.2.10's mod_proxy_http.c
>
> if ((r->proxyreq == PROXYREQ_REVERSE) && (!c->keepalives)
> && (apr_table_get(r->subprocess_env, "proxy-initial-not-pooled"))) {
> backend->close = 1;
> }
c->keepalives will tell you how many requests the connection has
handled, not whether it's going to be kept alive past the current
request. For that you need to look at c->keepalive.
--
Dan Poirier <poir...@pobox.com>
