373831 - Provide a way to disable "keep-alive" header

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Networking: HTTP, enhancement)

Description

[Ferdinand]

Quite some time ago someone came to IRC complaining that he couldn't stop firefox from sending the "keep-alive" header. He assumed that changing the network.http.keep-alive.timeout pref to 0 would disable it, but it doesn't.
The reason he brought it up was because a proxy detector wrongly flagged him as using a proxy.

I wrote a small patch at the time to create the behaviour he expected, I'm submitting it now to get it off my long-term TODO list. :-)

Comment 1

[Ferdinand]

Attachment: patch to provide a way to disable the "keep-alive" header

Comment 2

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

Comment on attachment 258476 [details] [diff] [review]
patch to provide a way to disable the "keep-alive" header

You should also send Connection: Close in this case, no? I.e. just add mIdleTimeout != 0 to the NS_HTTP_ALLOW_KEEPALIVE if

Comment 3

[Ferdinand]

Well, the point is to have keep-alive behaviour without the non-standard (for http/1.1) header.

Comment 4

[Ferdinand]

As biesi has pointed out on irc, this isn't the way to go about it. Since there's no other sensible, concise way to do it (that I can think of), this one goes in the bin.