Re: [Bug-wget] Connection: Keep-Alive behaviour

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

Hi Jonas,

wget 1.12 doesn't support HTTP/1.1 so the "Transfer-Encoding: chunked"
header is not considered.  The development version[1] supports
HTTP/1.1.  If you are already using it, can you please attach the "wget
-d" output?

In any case, wget specifies HTTP/1.0 in the request, your web server
shouldn't use features not present in this version of the protocol.

Cheers,
Giuseppe



1) https://savannah.gnu.org/bzr/?group=wget
"Jonas H." <address@hidden> writes:

> Howdy!
>
> In the process of testing my HTTP server implementation I stumbled
> upon a Wget weird behaviour regarding keep-alive connections.
>
> Wget requests a `Connection: Keep-Alive`, my server responds in chunks
> (`Transfer-Encoding: chunked`). Wget receives the empty sentinel chunk
> but does not close the connection although it hasn't got any more
> requests sticking around in its pipeline. The reason for this
> behaviour is, I guess, that my server does /not/ send a `Connection:
> Keep-Alive` header in the response.
>
> I think Wget should close the connection even though the `Connection:
> Keep-Alive` header is missing from the response. Why should it wait
> for more data? It's obvious that the server has no data left to send
> after the sentinel chunk, isn't it?
>
> Jonas