[htdig-dev] IIS and persistent_connections directive

[Alain F. <ala...@ri...>]

Hi,

According to my understanding:

1- default behavior is to enable persistent_connection;
2- htdig tries to get /robots.txt on every server in start_url;
3- In the same time, htdig detects wether the remote server support
   persistent connection mechanism. 

If the previouses sentences are true then there is a problem with some
HTTP servers. A few of them add a 'Connection: close' HTTP header when
returning HTTP status code 404.

So if /robots.txt doesn't exist, and the HTTP server is 'bogus', htdig
thinks the persistent connections mechanism is not supported. But it
false. If you get another document (which exists) it's ok (remote server
waits for another request in persistent mode).

I've found that Microsoft-IIS/4.0 and 5.0 have this problem.
Apache doesn't have it.

Does someone could confirm this behavior ?

Best regards,

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