client keep alive support under HTTP/1.0

[Valentin V. Bartenev]

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