- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 09:46:26 +0000
- To: Amos Jeffries <squid3@treenet.co.nz>
- cc: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
In message <c2a61992031af38f476c5e62656361ab@treenet.co.nz>, Amos Jeffries writ es: >> Also, the lack of a requirement that servers send a response is >> on purpose. See discussion of denial-of-service attacks. Perhaps >> what is should say is "MUST send a response or close the connection". > >+1. "MUST send a conformant response or close the connection" would be >good to explicitly mention that early on. It is a meaningless MUST without a specified deadline for such action. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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