HTTP is statel-less,so what does it mean by keep-alive?

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kern picture kern · May 19, 2011 · Viewed 7.8k times · Source 
Keep-Alive: 300
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive

As we know HTTP connection is closed when the request gets responded,so what does it mean by keep-alive,can someone elaborate this?

Answer

Kris picture Kris · May 19, 2011

This means it is OK to keep the connection open to ask for more resources like for example images and stylesheets.

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