Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-http-ses-ext-01.txt
BearHeart / Bill Weinman (bearheart@bearnet.com)
Thu, 22 Feb 1996 12:46:38 -0600
I would like to suggest a couple of things for the persistent
session spec:
1) A specification for a CGI variable that would indicate
to a CGI program that a session is persistent. Perhaps called
SERVER_CONNECTION it would have the content of the *server's*
Connection: header for the last transaction. Using this with the
HTTP_CONNECTION variable would allow a CGI program to determine
if it's dealing with a persistent connection.
This information would be useful for CGI state management.
2) A method for a CGI program to originate request for a
persistent connection. Simply make the protocol bi-directional.
If the server originates a "Connection: persist" to the client,
the client may respond back with "Connection: persist" and the
exchanges could continue as already specified.
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