- From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 20:18:26 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: Jeffrey Mogul <mogul@pa.dec.com>
- Cc: iren@cis.udel.edu, http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
> How does HTTP 1.1 behave when a user decides to cancel > loading a page while some elements of the page (e.g., images) > are still in transit? Does it close the connection, or is ... > The only mechanism supported by the HTTP/1.1 spec for aborting > a request in progress is to close the transport connection. > > I tried arguing, about a year ago, that we could do better than > this by using the TCP urgent-pointer mechanism (or its equivalent what could be the possible advantages ? Since the event is user-driven it cannot be too frequent, and presumably the performance loss should not matter that (even because often a user decides to abort when data are coming in slowly ...) Luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________
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