I believe the line making the connection always 'AP_CONN_CLOSE' on force-response-1.0 is a erroneous leftover. The 1.0 should keep the connection alive if the browser will ask it to do so.
> httpd-trunk/modules/http$ grep -n -C 3 force-response-1.0 http_filters.c > ... > 700: /* kludge around broken browsers when indicated by > force-response-1.0 701- */ > 702- if (r->proto_num == HTTP_VERSION(1,0) > 703: && apr_table_get(r->subprocess_env, "force-response-1.0")) { > 704- *protocol = "HTTP/1.0"; > 705- r->connection->keepalive = AP_CONN_CLOSE; ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > 706- } > ...