Re: How to make HttpClient NOT send "Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive"?

[sebb <se...@gmail.com>]

You should get a better response if you ask this on the
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On 30/08/06, Karr, David <da...@wamu.net> wrote:
> This may seem strange, but is it possible to make HttpClient NOT send
> the "Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive" header?
>
> I'm trying to write a test tool to load test an outside web service, but
> doing it in a way that is somewhat consistent with an internal
> application that will be calling that outside web service.  My test tool
> can send the message multiple times so we can generate statistics on the
> roundtrip time.  What I first noticed is that when I send N messages on
> a thread, the 2nd-Nth message is faster than the first one.  After
> examining the protocol behavior in Ethereal, I noticed that HttpClient
> appears to be sending a "Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive" header.  If I
> modified my test code to add a manual delay (9-10 seconds) between each
> message send, then the 2nd-Nth message timings were about the same as
> the first one.
>
> I'd prefer not to have that manual delay between each message.  For the
> sake of getting consistent results, is there any way to disable the
> sending of the "Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive" header?
>
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