Re: [htdig-dev] IIS and persistent_connections directive

[Geoff H. <ghu...@ws...>]

On 3 May 2002, Alain FORCIOLI wrote:

> 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. 

Yes, this is what I see in the code.

> 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 I think what you're suggesting is that we don't mark persistent
connections as false until we have a *successful* query with a closed
connection.

This sounds like a good fix to me.

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-Geoff Hutchison
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