Re: [Chicken-users] proposed change to http-client

[Elf]

ah, apologies, then.  i will fix it if desired.

i do notice that the default protocol version (at least for http:POST) is
1.0, however.  (actually, theres no way through just a call to http:POST
to use anything BUT 1.0, since it seems to be the default in http:request,
and theres no arg for explicit specification.)

-elf

On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Graham Fawcett wrote:

> On Feb 13, 2008 10:41 AM, Elf <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > It would be nice if the handling of Connection: close
> > > is consistent with http:POST and http:GET.
>
> > how is it inconsistent?  http posts should close connect afterwards, its not
> > a continuable operation, from my understandings.
>
> That's incorrect. Persistent connections are the default in HTTP/1.1,
> and POSTs are not excepted. Unless connection closure is explicitly
> negotiated, a HTTP/1.1 server may assume that the connection will
> continue to be used after a POST (or any other operation). See RFC
> 2616, section 8.1 for the whole story.
>
> For HTTP 1.0, *all* connections are closed after a single transaction,
> altough the Keep-Alive header may be used to request a persistent
> connection. The 1.1 spec warns that this approach has its problems.
> See RFC 2608 and 2616.
>
> Best,
> Graham