[TriLUG] OT: HTTP 304s and server optimization

[Christopher L Merrill]

Not sure if this is on topic or not...


I'm doing some analysis on a web server and came upon something strange.
This one server (which happens to be a Apache 2 variant) returns a
   Connection: close
header everytime it returns a 304 (not modified) response.  The apache.org
website does not operate in this manner, so I do not think this is the
default behavior.

The witnessed behavior obviously has an impact on performance on large
pages, since it has to continuously re-open new connections while fetching
images, etc.

My question: Does anybody know WHY you would explicitly WANT your
webserver to behave in this fashion?

TIA,
C


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