title: Lighttpd proxy curl GET does not close connection
body: <p>I have lighttpd set up to reverse proxy requests to a certain URL. The lighttpd.conf file looks like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>server.modules = (
      default modules,
      "mod_proxy",
  )
  
  $HTTP["url"] =~ "(^/myurl)" {
      proxy.server = ( "" =&gt; ( "" =&gt; ( "host" =&gt; "127.0.0.1", "port" =&gt; 8080 )))
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The proxy forwards requests for /myurl to my custom backend software.</p>
  
  <p>I have noticed that proxied GET requests always have </p>
  
  <pre><code>Connection: close
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>in the request header. As a consequence the proxied connection seems to be closed after each request. Is there a way to force this to </p>
  
  <pre><code>Connection: Keep-alive
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>?</p>