- From: Dave Kristol <dmk@research.bell-labs.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Apr 97 09:31:39 EDT
- To: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
Here's something that has puzzled me about HTTP server implementations. What happens if the server encounters an error after it sends, say, a "200 OK" response and part of the entity body? Example cases include an origin server that gets a timeout from a CGI part way through relaying the CGI's output, or when a proxy acts as a pure relay and, for example, its connection to the next hop server (is that upstream or downstream? :-) breaks. The server has no way to signal to its client that the previously claimed success has now turned into an error. Dave Kristol
Received on Monday, 14 April 1997 06:38:22 UTC