- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 23:21:16 PDT
- To: Yaron Goland <yarong@microsoft.com>
- Cc: "'doug_crow@cacheflow.com'" <doug_crow@cacheflow.com>, http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
> Your argument has the underlying assumption that the notification > information was "meant" for a particular user. There are many scenarios, > such as the server saying things like "I am going down" or "My resources > are getting limited" where the asynchronous notification is meant for > whomever has the connection open. > Well, so 1xx messages sent between a request and a response apply to that response, but 1xx messages sent without an outstanding request only apply "generically" to whomever has the connection open. Given the possibility of pipelining, it might be hard to tell which case you have. If I pipeline two requests and I get a 1xx after the first response and before the second, was it generated AFTER the second request was received or before? -- http://www.parc.xerox.com/masinter
Received on Tuesday, 15 April 1997 23:22:51 UTC