> > Are HEAD requests incompatible with keep-alive...?
>
> No. HEAD requests keep-alive just fine.
> My bet is that the benchmark tool you use can't handle HEAD responses.
Apache bench works fine with HEADs (ab -i) alone or with keep-alive (ab -k) alone.
But with both options (ab -i -k) at the same time, it just timeouts...
Anyway, since it does not work with apache either; I guess it is ab's problem...
Thx,
JD
