Re: [Chicken-users] proposed change to http-client

[Elf]

the v3 repo should now reflect the change (no Connection:close for 1.1)

-elf

On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Daishi Kato wrote:

> At Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:05:45 -0800 (PST),
> Elf wrote:
> > oh, i added a utility procedure to take care of those sorts of cases.  if
> > youre reusing a connect, you can now do
> >   (http:request-attribute-add! reqobj attribname val) , which will either
> > add the attrib if its not there or change the previous val in place (no
> > header reordering) if it already exists.
>
> Yeah, I found it useful. I've been using a similar util procedure
> in my local code.
>
> > i was saying that i thought it should always lose connection, but graham
> > pointed out that i was incorrect.  theres a separate issue of 1.0 being default
> > though.
>
> OK, since I need partial support for HTTP/1.1,
> plase do either the followings:
>
> a) modify http:POST so that "Connection: close" is added
>   only if the req is string.
> b) modify http:POST and http:GET so that they never
>   care the Connection header.
>
> Thanks,
> --daishi