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The author is wrong about his HTTP history. Keep-alive was a feature of HTTP/1.0 and was phased out in HTTP/1.1 in favour of "persistent connections."
by forensic 16y ago
The author is wrong about his HTTP history.
Keep-alive was a feature of HTTP/1.0 and was phased out in HTTP/1.1 in favour of "persistent connections."
- igrigorik 16y agoHmm, that's good catch - thanks. HTTP 1.0 didn't explicitly specify anything around persistent connections, so in practice you can add Keep-Alive header and hope that the server will respect it. By comparison, HTTP 1.1 defaults to persistent always and requires a "Connection: close" header to indicate otherwise.