- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 08:32:09 PDT
- To: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
In reply to: > I think that "indefinitely long server push" should be explicitly > disallowed. What's a robot to do, for example? I suppose this > is a different topic. Ben Laurie said: > Try ringing you local TV station and telling them they have to stop > broadcasting after 3 hours, because your VCR runs out of tape. :-) but seriously, shouldn't there be an expectation that a single HTTP request should get a complete reply, properly terminated, within a relatively small amount of time, and that a continuous entity body without termination (delivered through chunked encoding, perhaps) is not a valid HTTP response? If we don't disallow such things, a proxy implementation which attempted to buffer complete responses before sending them on would be non-compliant. Larry -- http://www.parc.xerox.com/masinter
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