kugler@us.ibm.com wrote, > The issue that always gets raised when this kind of thing > comes up is this: an HTTP proxy is allowed to buffer the > response and remove the chunked encoding, sending monolithic > response to the client. With the multipart encoding, you > could still pick apart the response, but now the timing would > be much different (you'd get all parts of the response at > once). That's one problem. Another, which affects both chunked transfer encoding and the multipart technique, is that a proxy is at liberty to set quite a short idle-timeout (say 30 secs to a couple of minutes) to protect itself from hung origin servers and double-sided DOS attacks (malicious client on one side, malicious server on the other). Cheers, Miles -- Miles Sabin Cromwell Media Internet Systems Architect 5/6 Glenthorne Mews +44 (0)20 8817 4030 London, W6 0LJ, England msabin@cromwellmedia.com http://www.cromwellmedia.com/Received on Friday, 5 May 2000 16:53:15 EDT
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