On 14/01/2026 11:23, Samuel Thibault wrote:
Amos Jeffries, le mer. 14 janv. 2026 10:50:45 +1300, a ecrit:
Per my earlier reply, I do advise keeping the HEAD initial request.
I don't see the use of it. You have no guarantee that the GET will get
the same server response header.
Samuel
It is a bandwidth efficient way to detect and handle 3xx/4xx/5xx status.
The way the translator is currently implemented with different TCP
connections for HEAD and GET is almost guaranteed to hit different
servers with potentially different response headers.
Moving to keep-alive on the same TCP connection ensures the same server
supplies both HEAD and GET. Thus, flipping the probability to almost
certainly having the same headers on both. Not quite guarantee, but much
better than the current code.
HTH
Amos
