On 4/14/05, Bumbia, M Kamran <Kamran.Bumbia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > We have a Socket Client implementation on an HTTP Client on an old TPF > system > > WE are communicating with the Apache Webserver on a Linux Box. > > We want to leave the Connection Open but apache is closing it. We are using > HTTP/1.1 and KeepAlive is also turned on. > > The response is not static and so the length is not known and some docs > through google search indicate the persistent connections do not work if the > content length is not known. > > Can Somebody please reply with some insight into this ? Apache will use persistent connections for dynamic content by doing chunked encoding if the client is doing HTTP/1.1. But there is a KeepAliveTimeout that limits the length of the persistent connection. Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx