How do I set the Connection header in older versions?

[TheMightyBorkon]

We may be forced to use an older version of GenHTTP (8.6.0, for compatibility with NET 7).

I don't see an obvious way of setting the Connection header in that version.

If I try to set it as part of a webservice response, like so:

return request.Respond()
              .Content(...)
              .Header("Connection", "close")
              .Type(...)
              .Build();

I get an exception:

Header 'Connection' cannot be set via header. Please use the designated property instead.

In the latest version I can use the Connection method on the builder to set the header:

.Connection(Connection.Close)

but that doesn't seem to exist in this older version.

What/where is the property that the exception message refers to in version 8.6.0?

[Kaliumhexacyanoferrat]

In older versions, keep-alive was assumed by the server if the client did not instruct otherwise (by specifying the Connection: close header or by using HTTP/1.0). Only since version 10 this can be manually overridden. So I fear there is no option I can give you for 8.x, except forking the release branch.

Any chance to update your project to .NET 8? dotnet updates are pretty easy nowadays and .NET 7 is not supported anymore.

[TheMightyBorkon]

Got it, thanks for the quick response.
Hopefully we will be able to move our product to .NET 10 in the near future, and this won't be an issue.