[10165] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Navigator & the closed socket (was: POST forms & Netscape Navigator)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (marc@ckm.ucsf.edu)
Thu Jul 25 13:29:14 1996
From: marc@ckm.ucsf.edu
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 10:17:59 -0700
To: www-talk@w3.org
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|>Netscape does NOT close the connection but opens a new connection to the
|>server for each inline image it needs. After it has received all the images,
|>it closes all the > connections. This happens even if the server responds
|>with HTTP/1.1 and Connection: keep-alive.
All implementations of HTTP/1.1 are technically speculative at this point
since the draft hasn't been finalized. In any case, unless a client
issues an HTTP request at level 1.1 or higher (does navigator actually do
this?) a server cannot respond with an HTTP/1.1 response.
-marc
