HTTP General Header Connection

External

https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.10

Internal

• HTTP Request
• HTTP Response
• General Headers

Overview

Used to implement the signaling mechanism between the client and the server that would allow the client - or the server - to gracefully close the underlying TCP/IP connection. In HTTP/1.1, connections are by default persistent.

For more details on persistent connections, and how Connection is used to close a persistent connection, see:

Persistent HTTP Connections