Julian Reschke wrote: > Jamie Lokier wrote: > >>Well, what would they contain in case of a truncated response? Surely > >>not the length/digest of the actual response, because that wouldn't help > >>the client finding out about the truncation... > > > >Truncated responses don't have trailers. Trailers are at the _end_! > >... > > Depends on the definition of "truncated". > > A server may not be able to complete sending the requested entity (file > io error, for instance), but still be able to send trailers... Ok, but then that's outside the bounds of HTTP message integrity. If a server cannot complete a response for any internal reason, but wants to send all the indications of a complete and finished responses (whatever they are), there's any number of ways it can do that. -- JamieReceived on Tuesday, 3 June 2008 19:01:01 GMT
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