Re: Keep-Alive support and buggy HEAD

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

But Windows doesn't work. :(

>> 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.

online.

> 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

2.8a

Joerg.

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