Re: Of HTTP/1.1 persistent connections and TCP Keepalive timers
Carl Kugler/Boulder/IBM (kugler@us.ibm.com)
Thu, 2 Nov 2000 13:19:01 -0700
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joris Dobbelsteen [mailto:joris.dobbelsteen@m...]
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>
> The browser can leave the connection open for an infinite ammount of time
> (if not restricted by lower-level protocols, like TCP).
>
> However, idle time-outs when the connection is CONNECTED are, in the real
> world, handled by the server instead of the client. This is because the
> server is not interrested in HTTP connections that are idle for an
infinite
> ammount of time and just consuming bandwidth (the lower-level connection
> must be maintained)...
>
...
How does an idle connection consume bandwidth?
-Carl