Enabling keep-alive in Apache

scp

Hi,
I'd like to enable the "Content: keep-alive" HTTP response header to optimise the serving of my static website.

My site is using the Apache/PHP symlink. I'm migrating from Webfaction (where I had a similar Apache symlink with Apache placed behind nginx). On Webfaction the "keep-alive" header was there without me doing anything.

I've tried adding this to my .htaccess file:

<ifModule mod_headers.c>
Header set Connection keep-alive
</ifModule>

but it makes no difference as far as I can see from the returned headers (the site is https://scphillips.com).

Please can this be enabled on the front-end nginx if that's what it takes?

Thanks,
Stephen.

scp

I've just spotted that you've got HTTP/2 implemented which is great (Webfaction was still on HTTP/1.1). For clients that can do HTTP/2 that means that the "Content: keep-alive" header is not needed, correct? It looks like that's all browsers in the last 5 years so if I'm right then I retract my request!

sean

scp I think that's correct, but we're still going to look into this so that you'll be able to get the same sort of response from our web servers that you got from WF.