http connection header value problems

mifflin has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Here is a code snippet where I'm am trying to send a request to another program I have written using HTTP::Deamon.

   my $requestHeader = HTTP::Headers->new();
   $requestHeader->header('Connection' => 'Keep-Alive');
   $requestHeader->header('Content-Type' => 'text/xml; charset=utf-8')
+;
   $requestHeader->header('Content-Length' => length($requestContent))
+;
   my $request = HTTP::Request->new('POST', $url, $requestHeader, $req
+uestContent);
   $request->protocol('HTTP/1.1');
   print $request->headers()->as_string();
   my $browser = LWP::UserAgent->new();
   my $response = $browser->request($request);
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When I run this it prints out

Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Length: 294
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8

When my deamon server gets it the headers received become

Connection: Keep-Alive, TE, close
Host: dev:2229
TE: deflate,gzip;q=0.3
User-Agent: libwww-perl/5.69
Content-Length: 294
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8

When and how is the ", TE, close" being added the the Connection value and how do I stop LWP from doing that?

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Re: http connection header value problems by mifflin (Curate) on Apr 28, 2004 at 20:08 UTC
I think I've discovered the answer. It appears that there is a keep_alive option available when creating the user agent object. The following change keeps the request() method from closing the connection. `my $browser = LWP::UserAgent->new(keep_alive => 1);` [download]	[reply] [d/l]