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I know HTTP keep-alive is on by default in HTTP 1.1 but I want to find a way to confirm that it is actually working.
Does anyone know of a simple way to test from a web browser (EG how to make sense of wireshark). I know I need to look for multiple HTTP requests over the same TCP connection but I don't know how to confirm that in wireshark or any other way.
Thanks!
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All modern browsers use persistent connections as long as the server has Keep-Alive enabled. In order to check if your pages are delivered with a Keep-Alive header, you can use the HTTP Header Checker tool. This will display the Connection: Keep-Alive field if the HTTP Keep-Alive header is enabled.
HTTP keep-alive, a.k.a., HTTP persistent connection, is an instruction that allows a single TCP connection to remain open for multiple HTTP requests/responses. By default, HTTP connections close after each request.
Keep-alive connections are enabled by default in HTTP/1.1 while not in HTTP/1.0. HTTP/1.0 was designed to close the connection after every request between client and server. We can actually check this difference using telnet .
As Ron Garrity said on ServerFault, you can use Curl like this:
curl -Iv http://www.aptivate.org 2>&1 | grep -i 'connection #0'
And it outputs these two lines if keep-alive is working:
* Connection #0 to host www.aptivate.org left intact
* Closing connection #0
And if keep-alive is not working, then it just outputs this line:
* Closing connection #0
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