Fwd: I-D Action:draft-thomson-hybi-http-timeout-00.txt

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Subject: I-D Action:draft-thomson-hybi-http-timeout-00.txt
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2011 15:15:01 -0800
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	Title           : Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Timeouts
	Author(s)       : M. Thomson, et al.
	Filename        : draft-thomson-hybi-http-timeout-00.txt
	Pages           : 12
	Date            : 2011-03-06

A Request-Timeout header is defined for Hypertext Transfer Protocol
(HTTP).  This end-to-end header informs an origin server and any
intermediaries of the maximum time that a client will await a
response to its request.  A server can use this header to ensure that
a timely response is generated.  This also identifies requests as
being potentially long-lived, and allows for better resource
allocation for these requests.

A Connection-Timeout header is defined for HTTP.  This hop-by-hop
header informs the entity at the other end of a connection of the
maximum time that an idle connection is kept open.  This header
improves reliability by providing better information about the idle
connection management policy of HTTP hosts.

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