Morning, this has come up a few times before, but I haven`t found the exact answer yet. I want to test if enabling keep-alive makes some pages load faster. I know the disadvanteges (could use massive amounts memory), but hey, it might just work. I`m using the wellknown browser<->mod_rewrite/proxy<->mod_perl setup. The mod_rewrite apache has keepalive on, the mod_perl one has not. For the record: I want only to enable keepalive between the browser and the frontend apache. Using the 'Connection: Keep-alive' header in cgi scripts on the frontend apache does work; the connections stay open. The same trick doesn`t work with the mod_perl one; mod_proxy does an explicit ap_table_unset(headers, "Connection"); in clear_connection(). Why is that? Is there a way to enable keepalives? Or is it really that bad/not usefull? I did find a patch by Joe Schaefer which looks nice: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=apache-modperl&m=96787783412579&w=2 Is anybody using it? Thanks, Harmen. -- The Moon is Waxing Crescent (4% of Full) nieuw.nl - 2dehands.nl
