HTTP General Header Connection

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External

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

Internal

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, see:

Persistent HTTP Connections