Hi,
I think the option of sub second connection timeouts is a good thing. It also
has the nice benefit of fixing windows interest RST behavior. It also means a
jk/http proxy can do things some L7 switches can't do. I've also had a need of
it in the past.
For most cases a connection is going to be very quick (LAN < 20 msec, good or
bad (RST) ) or be very long if unreachable/not there (apache timeout?). So on a
LAN a second is to big, especially if you have an average HTTP response of
15-30 milli sec (keepalive connection). I've ran apaches where that was the
main aim. A 1 sec connection timeout is 30 times the normal response time, kind
of large in that case.
I think the connect timeout is meaningful in the 0-10 second range which is
better served by having micro second timeout value (well milli second but
apache timeout seem to be usec or sec?).
Anyway having the connection timeout is great (sec or usec), thanks for
applying the patch to trunk.
Regards
Matt
