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=Overview=
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To close connection immediately:


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To keep the connection alive (with httpd as proxy), instead of "Connection: close" send:
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If we use httpd as a proxy, it'll close the connection immediately if we are not using:


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Connection: Keep-Alive
Connection: Keep-Alive
Keep-Alive: timeout=3600
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httpd will react to that if [[Httpd_KeepAlive#KeepAlive|KeepAlive]] is "On", and will keep the connection alive for [[Httpd_KeepAliveTimeout#KeepAliveTimeout|KeepAliveTimeout]] seconds.

Latest revision as of 23:17, 8 January 2017

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Overview

To close connection immediately:

telnet localhost 10000
GET /index.html HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:10000
Connection: close

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 37
Server: NovaOrdis http-server
Connection: close
...
Connection closed by foreign host.

To keep the connection alive (with httpd as proxy), instead of "Connection: close" send:

Connection: Keep-Alive

httpd will react to that if KeepAlive is "On", and will keep the connection alive for KeepAliveTimeout seconds.