Php:Keep-Alive
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008When a keep-alive request is granted the established socket is kept open after each keep-alive
response. Note that a keep-alive response is only possible when the response includes a
content-length header.
request 1
request 2
request 3
request 4
20 bytes
120 bytes
60 bytes
?? bytes
You cannot rely on the keep-alive feature for any sort of application-level session state maintenance.
Using Output Buffering to get content-length
<?php
ob_start();
echo “Your Data”;
$l = ob_get_length();
Header(”Content-length: $l”);
ob_end_flush();
?>
You will have to weigh the trade-off between the extra cpu and memory that output buffering takes
against the increased effciency of being able to use keep-alive connections for your dynamic pages.