Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> skribis:
>
>> When reusing a HTTP connection to fetch multiple nars, and the remote server
>> signals that the connection should be closed.
>>
>> * guix/scripts/substitute.scm (process-substitution): Close connections to
>> substitute servers when a Connection: close header is specified in the
>> response.
>
> In the context of <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/47157>, honoring
> “Connection: close” isn’t enough.  We need to handle the case where the
> server didn’t express the intent to close the connection but eventually
> closed it after some time.
>
> Does that make sense?

Yeah, of course, this was something I was thinking about in addition to
the changes in [1].

1: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/47160