- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@kiwi.ics.uci.edu>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 15:38:25 -0700
- To: Jim Davis <jrd3@alum.mit.edu>
- cc: Kevin Wiggen <wiggs@xythos.com>, w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
>(seems like the server just closes the connection each time. Is this >allowed? It's certainly not efficient. But anyway on the assumption that >it is legal, I modified my test code to work with this, so I could test >more features) It is allowed, but prevents the client from knowing whether they obtained the complete response or were just cut off. In other words, it is legitimate in HTTP/1.1, but never a good design choice when chunked is an alternative. ....Roy
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