"Jessen, Per" wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ralph Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: 24 May 1999 20:50
> [snip]
> > AT LAST!!! I've lost count of the number of times that
> > question has been asked
> > on this list and this is the first time I've seen an informed
> > answer. And a cure
> > to boot!
> >
> > But I must confess I still don't understand why the browser needs to
> > 'disconnect'. I thought http was a stateless (i.e. connectionless)
> protocol.
>
> http may be so, but tcp isn't.
Do you happen to know why, after a long period of inactivity, my browser would
still be maintaining an open TCP/IP socket to a remote host?
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ralph Clark, Virgo Solutions Ltd (UK)
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