On Saturday 03 March 2012 02:04:00 dbanks wrote:
> 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.

I don't recommend to use it. "ab" is slow and buggy.

> 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?
>

NGINX supports it by default. If you need to disable it,
then set: keepalive_timeout 0;

wbr, Valentin V. Bartenev

_______________________________________________
nginx mailing list
nginx@nginx.org
http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx