Re: Keep-Alive support and buggy HEAD

amb-Uxr6IM1mbv2TY6FTCsQk+9Bc4/[email protected] (Andrew M. Bishop)
Newsgroups gmane.network.wwwoffle.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Joerg Sommer <[email protected]> writes:

> does wwwoffle support keep-alive? I have problems to update Windows
> through wwwoffle. I belive it is, because wwwoffle closes the connection
> after the HEAD command and Windows don't like this.

No, WWWOFFLE closes the connection after every request.  This is
compliant with HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1 protocols because WWWOFFLE tells
the client that it is going to do this.

> I've seen a strange behaviour of the HEAD command. If I request the HEAD
> and the data of the site is cache I get it too.

Is this when you are online or offline?  I tested this when offline
and I did not get the body of the data, only the head.

There was a change in version 2.8e about HEAD requests when online.
Are you using this version or an earlier one?  If earlier then you
should try upgrading, if it is this one then let me know and I will
look for a bug in the new code.

> Does the RFC allow this?

No.

-- 
Andrew.
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