Re: Likely OT: "closing the connection"

• From: Frank Ellermann <nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de>
• Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 23:46:58 +0200
• To: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
• Message-ID: <g0iaul$j7u$1@ger.gmane.org>

Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
 
> Behaviour is somewhat unspecified if the client closes
> it's transmit channel while still waiting for a response,
> so don't do it.

Okay, and actually I forgot where this helped years ago...

> "Connection: close" is used by the client if it want to
> signal that there is no further requests to be expected
> on this connection. (or in case of HTTP/1.0 no 
> Connection: keep-alive header..)

...yes, I had this already.  Is the "unspecified HTTP/1.0
behaviour" something that should be mentioned in 2616bis ?

Thanks for info,

 Frank

Received on Thursday, 15 May 2008 21:47:07 UTC