// do NOT check for stale connection, that is an expensive operation
// Check for a self-terminating entity. If the end of the entity will
// be indicated by closing the connection, there is no keep-alive.
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
ProtocolVersion ver = response.getStatusLine().getProtocolVersion();
if (entity != null) {
if (entity.getContentLength() < 0) {
if (!entity.isChunked() ||
ver.lessEquals(HttpVersion.HTTP_1_0)) {
// if the content length is not known and is not chunk
// encoded, the connection cannot be reused
return false;
}
}
}
// Check for the "Connection" header. If that is absent, check for
// the "Proxy-Connection" header. The latter is an unspecified and
// broken but unfortunately common extension of HTTP.
HeaderIterator hit = response.headerIterator(HTTP.CONN_DIRECTIVE);
if (!hit.hasNext())
hit = response.headerIterator("Proxy-Connection");
// Experimental usage of the "Connection" header in HTTP/1.0 is
// documented in RFC 2068, section 19.7.1. A token "keep-alive" is
// used to indicate that the connection should be persistent.
// Note that the final specification of HTTP/1.1 in RFC 2616 does not
// include this information. Neither is the "Connection" header
// mentioned in RFC 1945, which informally describes HTTP/1.0.
//
// RFC 2616 specifies "close" as the only connection token with a
// specific meaning: it disables persistent connections.
//
// The "Proxy-Connection" header is not formally specified anywhere,
// but is commonly used to carry one token, "close" or "keep-alive".
// The "Connection" header, on the other hand, is defined as a
// sequence of tokens, where each token is a header name, and the
// token "close" has the above-mentioned additional meaning.
//
// To get through this mess, we treat the "Proxy-Connection" header
// in exactly the same way as the "Connection" header, but only if
// the latter is missing. We scan the sequence of tokens for both
// "close" and "keep-alive". As "close" is specified by RFC 2068,
// it takes precedence and indicates a non-persistent connection.
// If there is no "close" but a "keep-alive", we take the hint.
if (hit.hasNext()) {
try {
TokenIterator ti = createTokenIterator(hit);
boolean keepalive = false;
while (ti.hasNext()) {
final String token = ti.nextToken();
if (HTTP.CONN_CLOSE.equalsIgnoreCase(token)) {
return false;
} else if (HTTP.CONN_KEEP_ALIVE.equalsIgnoreCase(token)) {
// continue the loop, there may be a "close" afterwards
keepalive = true;
}
}
if (keepalive)
return true;
// neither "close" nor "keep-alive", use default policy
} catch (ParseException px) {
// invalid connection header means no persistent connection
// we don't have logging in HttpCore, so the exception is lost
return false;
}
}
// default since HTTP/1.1 is persistent, before it was non-persistent
return !ver.lessEquals(HttpVersion.HTTP_1_0);
}