Dear Sir I already did some research about this problem. But still be confused. I want to take advantage of the persistent connection of Http/1.1.
In my experiement, if HTTP/1.1 client connects to the tomcat 4.0.1 Http/1.1 directly, the persistent connection can be established. However, it is usless because actually all companies employ http proxies. Furthermore, a lot of them such as the squid is a http/1.0 proxy. in my application, the client (http/1.1) -----> squid proxy(http/1.0) ----> tomcat 4.0.1.(Http/1.1) I found that tomcat 4.0.1 always sends a FIN package after it sends the response even i send the Connection: Keep-Alive in the request header. Also, I know the tomcat does also received "Connection: Keep-Alive" header via proxy. I did a comparison between tomcat4.0.1 and apache 1.3.9, the results show that if If I add "Connection: Keep-Alive" header in the request, apache server will keep the connection alive even the proxy/client sends a HTTP/1.0 package. However, It seems that tomcat 4.0.1 doesn't support this feature. I think this feature isn't defined in specification, however, it is so important that it provide the only way(am i right?) to establish persistent connection in real world which is consisted of unexpected HTTP/1.0 proxies. I don't know whether my understanding is correct or not. Any comments are welcome. Thanks a lot. yangyuexiang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
