On 3 May 2002, Alain FORCIOLI wrote: > 1- default behavior is to enable persistent_connection; > 2- htdig tries to get /robots.txt on every server in start_url; > 3- In the same time, htdig detects wether the remote server support > persistent connection mechanism.
Yes, this is what I see in the code. > If the previouses sentences are true then there is a problem with some > HTTP servers. A few of them add a 'Connection: close' HTTP header when > returning HTTP status code 404. So I think what you're suggesting is that we don't mark persistent connections as false until we have a *successful* query with a closed connection. This sounds like a good fix to me. -- -Geoff Hutchison Williams Students Online http://wso.williams.edu/ _______________________________________________________________ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ htdig-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/htdig-dev