From 8476d4cf2937fc261bbcf2890ba39d815bce3ae5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brad Fitzpatrick Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 19:00:48 +1100 Subject: [PATCH] net/http: document Response.Body Read+Close interaction with keep-alive Fixes #5645 Change-Id: Ifb46d6faf7ac838792920f6fe00912947478e761 Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/1531 Reviewed-by: David Symonds --- src/net/http/response.go | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/net/http/response.go b/src/net/http/response.go index 5d2c39080e..cfe695ce5c 100644 --- a/src/net/http/response.go +++ b/src/net/http/response.go @@ -48,7 +48,10 @@ type Response struct { // The http Client and Transport guarantee that Body is always // non-nil, even on responses without a body or responses with // a zero-length body. It is the caller's responsibility to - // close Body. + // close Body. The default HTTP client's Transport does not + // attempt to reuse HTTP/1.0 or HTTP/1.1 TCP connections + // ("keep-alive") unless the Body is read to completion and is + // closed. // // The Body is automatically dechunked if the server replied // with a "chunked" Transfer-Encoding. -- 2.50.0