Name

nokeepalive

Synopsis

This disables KeepAlive (see Chapter 3). Some versions of Netscape claimed to support KeepAlive, but they actually had a bug that meant the server appeared to hang (in fact, Netscape was attempting to reuse the existing connection, even though the server had closed it). The directive:

BrowserMatch "Mozilla/2" nokeepalive

disables KeepAlive for those buggy versions.[10]



[10] And, incidentally, for early versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer, which unwisely pretended to be Netscape Navigator.