If HTTP 1.1 is used and backend doesn't return 'Connection' header, expicitly return Connection: keep-alive.

[Kami]

Currently if a backend doesn't return Connection header, http-proxy sets it to Connetion: close regardless of the request HTTP version.

We should respect request HTTP version and if HTTP 1.1 is used, return Connection: keep-alive. *

• Quoted from the RFC:

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to indicate that the connection will be kept open for the next request. The Connection header field with a keep-alive keyword must be sent on all requests and responses that wish to continue the persistence. The client sends requests as normal and the server responds as normal, except that all messages containing an entity body must have a length that can be determined without closing the connection (i.e., each message containg an entity body must have a valid Content-Length, be a multipart media type, or be encoded using the "chunked" transfer coding, as described in Section 7.2.2).
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[travisbot]

This pull request passes (merged 850171c into 4f6387c).

[Kami]

bump ^^

[indexzero]

Seems reasonable. We'll try to get this merged in soon. We try to perform maintenance in groups to make releases more stable, so apologies if it is not immediate.

[Kami]

OK, thanks for the heads up.