NEWS: update.

[wget] / src / http.c

diff --git a/src/http.c b/src/http.c
index 6795296706a8dae6b30e3f126fef5f0e8a5fa825..496e64a73dc5f976c3507a4c60eef6bcaac86fe9 100644 (file)
--- a/src/http.c
+++ b/src/http.c
@@ -1573,15 +1573,9 @@ gethttp (struct url *u, struct http_stat *hs, int *dt, struct url *proxy,
   /* Is the server using the chunked transfer encoding?  */
   bool chunked_transfer_encoding = false;
 
-  /* Whether keep-alive should be inhibited.
-
-     RFC 2068 requests that 1.0 clients not send keep-alive requests
-     to proxies.  This is because many 1.0 proxies do not interpret
-     the Connection header and transfer it to the remote server,
-     causing it to not close the connection and leave both the proxy
-     and the client hanging.  */
+  /* Whether keep-alive should be inhibited.  */
   bool inhibit_keep_alive =
-    !opt.http_keep_alive || opt.ignore_length || proxy != NULL;
+    !opt.http_keep_alive || opt.ignore_length;
 
   /* Headers sent when using POST. */
   wgint post_data_size = 0;
@@ -1691,8 +1685,18 @@ gethttp (struct url *u, struct http_stat *hs, int *dt, struct url *proxy,
                         rel_value);
   }
 
-  if (!inhibit_keep_alive)
-    request_set_header (req, "Connection", "Keep-Alive", rel_none);
+  if (inhibit_keep_alive)
+    request_set_header (req, "Connection", "Close", rel_none);
+  else
+    {
+      if (proxy == NULL)
+        request_set_header (req, "Connection", "Keep-Alive", rel_none);
+      else
+        {
+          request_set_header (req, "Connection", "Close", rel_none);
+          request_set_header (req, "Proxy-Connection", "Keep-Alive", rel_none);
+        }
+    }
 
   if (opt.post_data || opt.post_file_name)
     {