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| current transaction finishes.</p> |
| <p>If the value sent is keep-alive, the connection is persistent and not |
| closed, allowing for subsequent requests to the same server to be done.</p> |
| <p>Except for the standard hop-by-hop headers (Keep-Alive, |
| Transfer-Encoding, TE, Connection, Trailer, Upgrade, Proxy-Authorization |
| and Proxy-Authenticate), any hop-by-hop headers used by the message must |
| be listed in the Connection header, so that the first proxy knows he has |
| to consume them and not to forward them further. Standard hop-by-hop |
| headers can be listed too (it is often the case of Keep-Alive, but this |
| is not mandatory.</p> |
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