- From: Eric W. Sink <eric@rafiki.spyglass.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 12:05:38 -0500
- To: Dave Kristol <dmk@allegra.att.com>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
>Right. My variant remains: if it's CGI output and client says protocol >is HTTP/1.2, I'll chunk the output (Transfer-Encoding: chunked). Fine. >Okay. But there's a potential problem here. If the server sends the >response header, then encounters some kind of problem, it may be forced >to close the connection, thus "lying". I forgot to mention: Either client or server can close the connection when necessary, with the other side being required to cope. -- Eric W. Sink Senior Software Engineer, Spyglass eric@spyglass.com All opinions expressed here are my own.
Received on Monday, 21 August 1995 10:08:22 UTC