OK. All I wanted to say is that disabling keepAlive across the board is not necessary. If keepAlive can be applies to a single response (and to be honest I am not sure it is possible), it is fine.
I was under impressing that the only way to disable keep alive is globally via: maxKeepAliveRequests="1" in server.xml > Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 16:08:36 -0500 > From: ch...@christopherschultz.net > To: users@tomcat.apache.org > Subject: Re: How to disable chunked encoding for the Http11NioProtocol > connector. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ilya, > > On 1/6/2011 12:27 PM, ilya goberman wrote: > > I think what was suggested before is to control this behavior by > > setting "keepAlive" setting. I would not think this is the right > > way. > > Er, what's the difference between using "keepAlive setting" and > "Connection: close"? AFAIK, they are the same thing. > > > I would still want to preserve "keepAlive" functionality for all > > other requests except "long running comet response". > > Of course. So, you have the client set "Connection: close" (which > disables keep-alive) and then the configuration Mark proposed causes > chunked encoding to be avoided. > > > So if it is > > request for a web page, using keepAlive is fine. Now in order to > > disable chunked encoding for a particular response, I would propose > > that a developer would set "Connection:close" header. > > On the server side or from the client side? I'm not sure if Mark was > thinking client or server. I suppose server would be safer, since the > server can make the decision and not have to ensure that clients are > compliant. > > > Using > > connection "close" implies that closing the connection indicates the > > end of response and chunked encoding is not necessary in this case. > > So... everyone is happy, then, right? Are we arguing semantics, then? > > - -chris > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAk0mL1QACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PBxKwCgqjbxMKY5WKqdVLR8Ay9TpA+h > ojwAmwdQKzXFqiumBd8j40zEgym9NOeR > =2fnQ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org >
