On 3/25/06, Elver Loho <elver.loho@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Background. We're writing a HTTP client. We don't yet have support for > keep-alive, so we don't set any keep-alive specific headers > (connection, keep-alive). > > Now, when Apache serves us a page, it drops the connection after > serving it. Which is what one would expect if we don't set keep-alive. > > However, when Apache serves us a 302 redirect, it does NOT drop the > connection, unless Connection: close is specified in the request > headers. > > I'm not sure how the RFC specifies this, but I kinda expect Apache to > default to assuming Connection: close when no keep-alive is specified. > > Or is the 302-specific behaviour some kinda pre-keep-alive legacy behaviour? HTTP/1.1 or 1.0. In 1.1 persistent connections are the default. 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