John Franks writes: > Gettys and Freier are discussing something else, for example, letting the > client know about a server's policy concerning maximum allowed idle time > or maximum number of pipelined GETs permitted.. Thanks for setting me straight on this. > I think that Ben Laurie was pointing out that the server can't really know > "when all the inlined entities have been sent" since some may be in the > browser's cache, but the client surely knows when they have been received > so it is not clear why it would need a close-connection hint. I assumed the hint was meant as a request to the client to close the connection and go away. I agree that caching could be a problem. --Jeff dLB = J-F Pitot de La Beaujardiere = delabeau@iniki.gsfc.nasa.gov = http://globe2.gsfc.nasa.gov/Received on Wednesday, 26 March 1997 12:58:06 EST
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