From 600fbe39b2d3b57accf7ce42c475f1348e397db8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Patrick Boettcher <patrick.boettcher@posteo.de>
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 10:46:39 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Possible implementation for fixing #106

---
 server_http.hpp | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/server_http.hpp b/server_http.hpp
index 2651eab..9d55e1c 100644
--- a/server_http.hpp
+++ b/server_http.hpp
@@ -74,6 +74,13 @@ namespace SimpleWeb {
             size_t size() {
                 return streambuf.size();
             }
+
+            /// A resource-handler can set this to true in its Response-object
+            /// to have the server connection being close by the server after data has been sent.
+            ///
+            /// This is useful when implementing a HTTP/1.0-server which usually closes the connection
+            /// after the response has been sent out, without using Content-Length:-header.
+            bool close_connection_after_send = false;
         };
         
         class Content : public std::istream {
@@ -394,6 +401,9 @@ namespace SimpleWeb {
                             return;
                         }
                         
+                        if (response->close_connection_after_send)
+                            return;
+
                         auto range=request->header.equal_range("Connection");
                         for(auto it=range.first;it!=range.second;it++) {
                             if(boost::iequals(it->second, "close"))