On Oct 10, 2007, at 8:38 AM, Aleksey Midenkov wrote:
On Wednesday 10 October 2007 16:25:58 Jim Jagielski wrote:
On Oct 10, 2007, at 6:01 AM, Aleksey Midenkov wrote:
On Tuesday 09 October 2007 22:49:38 Jim Jagielski wrote:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=78967
That's a 1997 date, btw :)
There were no word about broken browsers in that commit, only about
broken
proxy. ;)
On Tuesday 09 October 2007 22:41:19 Jim Jagielski wrote:
I can't see changing the behavior now, after all these years.
If we want to create a variant that maintains the feasibility of
keepalives, then a big +1 for that, but it should be a new
envvar, not changing the userland experience of an existing one...
And if browser asks explicitly for Keep-Alive, why not to satisfy
it? You
should keep in mind that implicit behaviour is 'Connection: Close'
for 1.0
protocol. I think, new envvar will add unnecessary complexity to
configuration and redundant processing to servers...
And I think changing the behavior of an existing envvar from
how it's been used for ~10years is *sure* to create *more* confusion.
The behavior is wrong since 2001-03-16 and since then it *sure*
made and keeps
making confusion. About 6 years.
Whatever. I would for sure wager that if this is changed, people will
see a SLEW of incoming reports that "Hey, I switched from 2.2.6
to 2.2.7 and I'm seeing this change"... I am also sure that wrong or
not, there are a lot of people who have either worked around this
or are depending on it, and cutting them off at the knees with
no workaround is hardly something responsible developers should
do.
I really don't care all that much, but I tend to recall that we
have at least *some* responsibility to our userbase out there, and
fixing something to help out one set, while at the same time ignoring
the impacts on another set is foolish.
BTW: The rev you refer to doesn't change the behavior of force-
response-1.0
*itself* but rather "when" it's applied. So the fact that force-
response-1.0
forcibly disables keepalives is something that's been with us for ~10
years.
