- From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
- Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 21:22:40 +0100
- To: Zhong Yu <zhong.j.yu@gmail.com>
- Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 01:24:15PM -0600, Zhong Yu wrote: > Thanks Willy, I think I get what you mean by now. FIN should be > initiated by server to avoid the TIME_WAIT problem. Therefore the > half-close step is important. exactly. > The current text makes perfect sense to me now. With this in mind, do you think that something in the text should be updated for future readers ? > Unfortunately, this lingering close process cannot be implemented on > top of some APIs; these APIs don't do transparent lingering close upon > close() either. But it is their fault, not the spec's. Indeed. However the fallback to full close with the kernel's lingering is still working in practice. Just not perfectly reliable. Regards, Willy
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