- From: <rlgray@raleigh.ibm.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 10:52:05 EST
- To: HTTP Working Group <http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com>
** Reply to note from Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch (Life is hard... and then you die.) Mon, 30 Mar 1998 00:20:01 +0200 Imagine for a moment that I have a proxy server. I start to fetch a page for a client, and return the headers. There are many objects that don't come with Content-Length (e.g. FTP). If it is not cacheable I won't buffer it; even if it is cacheable, the first client doesn't get a Content-Length because I don't buffer the entire object before sending the response (to reduce latency). Imagine the request times out, or a shark eats the trans-Atlantic cable the object is being transfered over, or whatever. Now, I have to close the connection to the client, who recieves a truncated object with no indication of an error (until he tries to use it and finds it is corrupted). There is no possiblity of reporting what the problem is either. > > > 10.4.9 408 Request Timeout > > (server) would like to have general trailer for this > > I don't understand this one. Is a new header field wanted? If so, what > would be gained? > > > Cheers, > > Ronald > > Richard L. Gray will code for chocolate
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