Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-http-ses-ext-01.txt
David W. Morris (dwm@shell.portal.com)
Sun, 25 Feb 1996 18:36:31 -0800 (PST)
On Thu, 22 Feb 1996, BearHeart / Bill Weinman wrote:
> I would like to suggest a couple of things for the persistent
> session spec:
>
> 1) A specification for a CGI variable that would indicate
> to a CGI program that a session is persistent. Perhaps called
> SERVER_CONNECTION it would have the content of the *server's*
> Connection: header for the last transaction. Using this with the
> HTTP_CONNECTION variable would allow a CGI program to determine
> if it's dealing with a persistent connection.
>
> This information would be useful for CGI state management.
>
> 2) A method for a CGI program to originate request for a
> persistent connection. Simply make the protocol bi-directional.
> If the server originates a "Connection: persist" to the client,
> the client may respond back with "Connection: persist" and the
> exchanges could continue as already specified.
These suggestions would only make sense if the persistant connection
is directly between a end user client and server. They immediately
break if a proxy is involved.
I am assuming that the latest draft hasn't changed completely the
earlier sense of persistent connections which makes the
UA->proxy and proxy->server connection persistentcy independant.
If it has, then I'll have more to say.
Dave Morris