Re: [libmicrohttpd] Connection: header

[Luke Dashjr]

On Thursday, June 05, 2014 5:44:49 PM Christian Grothoff wrote:
> On 06/05/2014 07:39 PM, Luke Dashjr wrote:
> > On Thursday, June 05, 2014 5:37:43 PM Christian Grothoff wrote:
> >> What is not possible right now is to force MHD to not generate any
> >> "Connection"
> >> header; that'd need an API extension.  But, try adding "Connection:
> >> close" first,
> >> and if that somehow fails to show up properly on the wire, please send a
> >> testcase
> >> and I'll be happy to take a close look at it.
> > 
> > Connection: close (or really *any* Connection header) will also break the
> > client in question :(
> 
> Sounds like the kind of software that shouldn't be on any network...

Yeah, unfortunately, this company keeps shipping the hardware without fixing 
this issue. :(

> Anyway, I could imagine having an option like "force_http_10" that
> would tell MHD to always close connections after the first request
> and never add connection headers.

I suppose that might work.

> Still, that leaves the question if that should be an option for the
> entire HTTP server (all responses) or a per-response option.

Per-response seems ideal to me, since I can potentially identify the 
problematic client by its user agent... ;)

Thanks,

Luke