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[Tiga]

FIN packets

Hi all,
One of my client has the following question but I don't have enough knoweldge on this topic. Hope some network experts out there can give me some advises. Thanks in advance
Quote:


I want to do this:
1. TCP SYN negotiation using fixed port
2. HTTP request
3. ACK
4. Another HTTP request (control words)
5. ACK
6. Another HTTP request (control words)
7. ACK
Unfortunately, I can only accomplish this:
1. TCP SYN negotiation using fixed port
2. HTTP request (control words)
3. ACK
4. FIN
5. TCP SYN negotiation using ANOTHER port
6. HTTP request (control words)
7. ACK
8. FIN
There is too much overhead in the second method. Can you comment on why the first method doesn't work? It processes the first HTTP request but ignore the second, third, etc. HTTP requests. WHY? Do I always have to choose another port to processes another HTTP request?







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[lamerfreak]

The first is using HTTP 1.1 keepalive, whereas the second is closing the connection after each, perhaps?
Just a guess.