HTTP connection type

[Ingwie Phoenix]

Hey.

So I just used a benchmarking tool to see how well my app responds to a lot of requests. And whilst doing so, I noticed that I continously used Keep-alive connections. What are the advantages of it, why is it the default in nodejs? I was reading up on a page what it means and such…and wonder, would it be better to use „close“ instead?

Kind regards, Ingwie.

Link: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Sep 15, 2014, at 10:36 AM, Ingwie Phoenix wrote:
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> So I just used a benchmarking tool to see how well my app responds to a lot of requests. And whilst doing so, I noticed that I continously used Keep-alive connections. What are the advantages of it, why is it the default in nodejs? I was reading up on a page what it means and such…and wonder, would it be better to use „close“ instead?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_persistent_connection#Advantages