Hi,

We're working on a server-to-server integration effort, using nginx as our front end. The guys on the other side are using ab (ApacheBench) to perform initial testing. ApacheBench includes a switch to turn on keepalive request support, but it only sends HTTP/1.0 requests.

Our research on keepalives using HTTP/1.0 is inconclusive. Some resources (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_persistent_connection) state that it is loosely supported, while other sources don't make that claim.

Question: Is it possible to enable support for keep-alive connections using HTTP/1.0?

If it matters, gzip is disabled in our config (we were hoping that it would result in the content-length header being set).

Cheers,

Dean