As far as I can tell, Firefox is the only browser that regards
"connection: close" as an indication that the connection should not be
counted against the connection limit
What gives you that idea? I'm not actually sure since I don't know the
inner workings of the network code, but I have never heard of such
behavior.
I have never heard of such behavior either until this thread. I just tried
it out against Safari 3, IE8, Opera 9, and FF2. Only FF2 seemed to be
affected by "Connection: close". FF2 seems to let me open an indefinite
number of connections to a server if use "Connection: close", but only two
connections are allowed if don't use it. I was surprised as well. FF3 is not
affected by "Connection: close", only FF2.
Kris
