[bug #24006] GSWeb application behaves badly with HTTP/1.1 persistent connections

[Peter Cooper]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?24006>

                 Summary: GSWeb application behaves badly with HTTP/1.1
persistent connections
                 Project: GNUstep
            Submitted by: comrade
            Submitted on: Tuesday 08/05/2008 at 21:18
                Category: gsweb
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Bug
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

When testing a GSWeb application in "rapid turnaround mode" with Firefox, ie
via localhost:9001, multiple clicks on WOHyperlinks and WOSubmitButtons are
needed.

When looking at traffic using Wireshark it's clear that persistent
connections are being used by Firefox and that GSWeb is claiming to be
HTTP/1.1 compliant.

Persistent connections don't appear to be working, and this is confirmed by
turning off the persistent connection behaviour in Firefox configuring
network.http.keep-alive to be false at which point the user experience is
corrected. This is not a good solution.

Modifying GSWHTTPIO.m _sendMessage to always send a connection: close header
exhibits correct user experience. Either this should be set as default
behaviour or the keep-alive functionality has to be corrected.




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