PHP 4.0 Bug #2497: header("Connection: keep-alive") has "close" appended?

From: medavid@ix.netcom.com Operating system: Linux 2.2.10 PHP version: 4.0 Beta 2 PHP Bug Type: Other Bug description: header("Connection: keep-alive") has "close" appended? I am running PHP 4.0B2 as a module in Apache (1.3.6) (./configure --with-mysql --enable-track-vars --with-apache=../apache-1.3.6). The specific distribution is SuSE 6.2. Here's the problem (I think it's a bug, but I'm not sure; I haven't been able to find any concrete information on this)... I have a client that calls a PHP script, and specifies "Connection: Keep-Alive" in the GET stream. This client is using HTTP/1.0. The PHP script attempts to also keep "keep-alive" turned on by having a "header("Connection: Keep-alive")" at the very top of the script. However, what gets sent back to the client is "Connection: Keep-alive, close". It seems that PHP is always closing the connection after the script finishes executing. I've tested this in various ways. If I don't invoke a PHP script, the client's keep-alive works and the connection stays active. I've noticed that PHP 3 just plain *ignores* the keep-alive; in other words, it *always* inserts a "Connection: close" in the return stream. Is this the way it's supposed to work? Shouldn't PHP leave the "Connection:" alone if a script specifies one? Thanks, and if this isn't a bug, I apologize. Mark