[e2e] Can we revive T/TCP ? => persistent connections

Harald Koch chk at pobox.com
Wed Jan 4 07:23:34 PST 2006


> In practice, this doesn't seem to be the case. In all the tests my
> students did (not a thorough measurement study, just some
> experiments), the server closed the connection after sending a page.

IME, this is most commonly caused by the webserver not knowing the size of a
dynamically generated page in advance. When the webserver cannot send a
Content-Length: header, it must close the connection to signal "end of page"
instead.

-- 
Harald Koch
chk at pobox.com



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