Re: Mod_Proxy Connection:Close Workaround?

Amandeep Jawa wrote:

> I hope someone can help or at least help me understand what is going 
> on.  I work at Apple and we are using an HTTP based protocol in iTunes 
> to implement song & database streaming over TCP/IP connections 
> (http://www.apple.com/itunes/ see the "New Music Sharing feature " blurb).
> 
> Anyway our system presumes a persistent connection ala HTTP 1.1 but 
> whenever a request is directed through mod_proxy in Apache 1.3.24* a 
> "Connection: Close" header is added to the request, thus causing the 
> server to shutdown the connection that is supposed to persist.  When the 
> client makes the next request, it realizes the connection has closed 
> unexpectedly and assumes the server has been lost.

A connection: close simply tells the client that this server/proxy is
not prepared to support keepalives, which are the default behaviour for
HTTP/1.1, but is not required.

Apache v2.0 supports keepalives in the proxy (the proxy was redesigned
from scratch in v2.0), and will solve your problem.

> Can anyone explain what is going on? Why would mod_proxy think it is OK 
> to add a "Connection: Close" header?  Is there anything I can do on the 
> client to make this NOT happen?

Install Apache v2.0...

Regards,
Graham
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