GitHub user EronWright opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4765
[FLINK-7753] [flip-6] close REST channel on server error ## What is the purpose of the change Improve REST server handling of unexpected errors. ## Brief change log - Close the connection when returning a 500 response. - Obey rfc2616#section-14.10 which says that HTTP 1.1 responses should explicitly say `Connection: close` if keep-alive was requested but not agreed to. ## Verifying this change This change is a trivial rework / code cleanup without any test coverage. - Dependencies (does it add or upgrade a dependency): no - The public API, i.e., is any changed class annotated with `@Public(Evolving)`: no - The serializers: no - The runtime per-record code paths (performance sensitive): no - Anything that affects deployment or recovery: JobManager (and its components), Checkpointing, Yarn/Mesos, ZooKeeper: no ## Documentation - Does this pull request introduce a new feature? no You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/EronWright/flink FLINK-7753 Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4765.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #4765 ---- commit 1f9fef31323750cbaa8bd17fa7df93c7eb14a09f Author: Wright, Eron <eron.wri...@emc.com> Date: 2017-09-29T18:08:25Z [FLINK-7753] [flip-6] close REST channel on server error, obey rfc2616#section-14.10 ---- ---