Re: swallow the request

On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Lv, Qiang wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I set up jigsaw as a proxy server, and write my filter to process my 
> special requests which are embedded in html document by myself. My 
> another question is:
> 
> Can my filter just accept a request from browser, and not produce a 
> reply? I means my filter wants to swallow this request without any 
> responses. In another word, how can I stop the further processing in the 
> ingoing method of my filter? 

No, you MUST send a reply.
The best choice is to send a 204, meaning that the reply has no content.
(HTTP spec, 10.2.5: 204 No Content).

Otherwise, the browser can't associate the next reply with a request.
Regards,

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