- From: John Franks <john@math.nwu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 09:38:17 -0600 (CST)
- To: Jeff de la Beaujardiere <delabeau@iniki.gsfc.nasa.gov>
- Cc: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
On Thu, 27 Mar 1997, Jeff de la Beaujardiere wrote: > > Interesting idea which should help with pipelined requests. It does, > however, require invoking a second script on the server. I want a single > response to send HTML, pause while the image is generated, and then send the > image. > I believe that some server implementations allow an "nph" script to completely take over the connection. In that case a single script could handle a number of requests in one connection in the way you want. Personally, I have always considered this a security hole. It a allows a script to highjack the connection and pretend to be the server for the duration of the connection without the real server being aware of the transactions. My guess is that this "feature" will disappear from future versions of servers. John Franks Dept of Math. Northwestern University john@math.nwu.edu
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