- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@liege.ICS.UCI.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 05 Dec 1995 15:53:57 -0800
- To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Cc: dmk@allegra.att.com, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
> I thought I started to understand this issue in the working group > meeting, that the 'five seconds' was an arbitrary timeout, and that if > the timeout were 'zero seconds' that this would also continue to work: > senders should read if sending would block, and recievers should send > abort messages as soon as they can, and NOT CLOSE THE CONNECTION if > they care whether the sender actually gets the abort. > > Did I get this right? Yep, that's right. The 5 seconds is arbitrary and only serves as a forcing function. ......Roy
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