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

[Elf]

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> OK, since I need partial support for HTTP/1.1,
> plase do either the followings:
>
> a) modify http:POST so that "Connection: close" is added
>   only if the req is string.

what if i do a protocol-version check before adding the conenction close, so
as to preserve proper behaviour under 1.0 ? ie, connection close will only
be added if there isnt an extant connection header and the version == 1.0.


> b) modify http:POST and http:GET so that they never
>   care the Connection header.
this would break the default behaviour, and is more of a problem with the
http-client egg as a whole, unfortunately.  http:GET and http:PUT dont 
pay attention to the attributes, on the whole.  theyre just simplification
wrappers for everything beneath.  for what its worth, the is-keep-alive? 
procedure does proper version checking and only closes on the connection 
header if its explicitly specified, if the protocol-version is 1.1.  so as
long as i fix the above bit (not explicitly adding the close), it will work
as you expect in 1.1


-elf