Re: Keep-Alive Notes
Eric W. Sink (eric@rafiki.spyglass.com)
Tue, 17 Oct 1995 08:29:47 -6
> Is the Keep-Alive header mandatory or optional? That is, is the presence
> of just
> Connection: Keep-Alive
> sufficient?
I believe it should be optional. Our client, for example, ignores it
entirely, since it doesn't seem to be interested in the max and
timeout keywords.
> I argue, therefore, that the Keep-Alive header conveys no useful
> information and ought to be dropped.
While agreeing with the rest of your message, I disagree here.
Providing a place for these kinds of parameters is the right idea
since we *will* run across a need for one, and that kind of
information should stay out of the Connection header itself.
Eric W. Sink
eric@spyglass.com http://www.spyglass.com/~eric/