Re: 1.1b3 and things???

  I'm a HTTP/1.1 client. I don't understand any of that HTTP/1.0   Keep-Alive stuff...

This appears to be where we disagree. I think it's reasonable to expect that *any* HTTP/1.1 client will understand HTTP/1.0 Keepalive for a while yet (which is why the grotty details of doing so are spelled out in section 19.6.2.6 of the draft-04).

Accordingly, I've been, assuming we'd keep on sending "Connection: keep-alive" to all clients as long as we claim to be an HTTP/1.0 server --- including to HTTP/1.1 clients which came in without Connection: Close. So your hypothetical client cruises in and sees:

  HTTP/1.0 200 OK
  Irrelevant-headers: irrelevant-values
  Connection: keep-alive

(Where this gets a *bit* weird is with my current threaded server code, which will happily toss a "Transfer-encoding: chunked" into that response if an HTTP/1.1 client requests, say, a CGI script or SSI file. Still, I really doubt that any real HTTP/1.1 client will be confused by all this).

rst Received on Sun Jun 9 11:37:25 1996