Connection keep-alive

[kl...@Materna.de]

Hi,

to keep a http connection open,

a) does the application have to set the request header Connection:
Keep-Alive ?
b) does httpClient set it by itself ?
c) is it not neccessary to set the header Connection: Keep-Alive ?

Does anybody know ?

Thanks

Klaus.

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Re: Connection keep-alive

[Roland Weber <ht...@dubioso.net>]

Hi Klaus,

> to keep a http connection open,
> 
> a) does the application have to set the request header Connection:
> Keep-Alive ?
> b) does httpClient set it by itself ?
> c) is it not neccessary to set the header Connection: Keep-Alive ?

I can't help thinking that these questions are all the same.

HttpClient will by default try to keep connections alive.
This includes sending a keep-alive header if the application does
not set one. This is also addressed in our optimization guide:
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/performance.html#Connection%20persistence

cheers,
  Roland

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