# Connection: close HTTP 1.1

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/connection-close-http-1-1/106325>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 8, 2007, 4:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/connection-close-http-1-1/106325 "2007-06-08T16:13:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![bob](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@bob](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bob)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2007, 4:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/connection-close-http-1-1/106325/1 "2007-06-08T16:13:40Z")

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I am making a request to my mongrel server and I always receive:

Connection: close

in the http response, but I want a persistent connection, any ideas why  
it is always closing?

My request header follows:

GET/users/index HTTP/1.1  
Host: 192.168.1.103

I’m getting correct response header back apart from the Connection:  
close i.e.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK  
Connection: close  
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 14:09:48 GMT  
Set-Cookie: \_Package\_session\_id=a4c5d42e83ece57205451fad10335b16; path=/  
Status: 200 OK  
Cache-Control: no-cache  
Server: Mongrel 1.0.1  
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8  
Content-Length: 4

Any ideas how I can keep my connection open?