Are you sure about that? That seems to violate the http/1.1 RFC. I think the node.js docs are talking about http/1.0 there. http/1.1 uses the "Connection" heade

Are you sure about that? That seems to violate the http/1.1 RFC. I think the node.js docs are talking about http/1.0 there. http/1.1 uses the "Connection" header to indicate whether to persist the connection.