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The server that my website is located on it, send these two http headers: 

Connection:Keep-Alive
Keep-Alive:timeout=5

As you can see, there is no max in Keep-Alive header. isn't it going to cause any problem? what is the default value for max?
And another question, I don't have access to apache config, how can I increase timeout?
Once I contacted the host manager, he said it's too odd and strange to manipulate the apache confing! REALLY IS IT? any idea?

Thanks everybody.

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Read Keep-alive header clarification. It is up to the server when it closes the connection anyway, the timeout and max parameters are an indication, not a hard line. If the server is busy, it can close connections arbitrarily.

To modify the server settings locally, see Using keep-alive feature in .htaccess. You can do so in .htaccess if the host allows you to.

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  • Thank you @CodeCaster. I read the two links you provided. It seems my host doesn't allow modifying keep-alive header in htaccess. Right now, I figured out that the server is **not returning** `keep-alive` headers. The headers in my question, are the response header from the proxy I am using! Although the server doesn't return `Connection` and `keep-alive` header, I can download files simultaneously from the website. Could you explain, why is this happening??! Thanks. – Saeed Aug 22 '15 at 09:33
  • @Sattar keep-alive is for _successive_ requests. With or without it, you can always fire simultaneous requests, unless server software prevents that. – CodeCaster Aug 22 '15 at 16:12