Cneonction and nnCoection HTTP headers

Question

We have often some issues in terms of interoperability on the Web. One of these issues for browsers vendors is the wrongly spelled Connection HTTP header. The m

Answer 1

Are you sure it's an actual issue? The linked article suggests that these sorts of headers are "misspelled on purpose" so that a load balancer, reverse proxy or other middlebox can defeat the server's wishes that the connection be kept alive, without having to track a delta in TCP stream position over the life of the connection. Something like this may actually be necessary to bring a downed and recovered server back into active duty, by forcing kept-alive connections to other servers to migrate to the one brought online.

If you have a protocol that's dependent on HTTP Connection: keep-alive to function (cough), you're probably doing it wrong.