- From: David W. Morris <dwm@shell.portal.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 10:52:10 -0800 (PST)
- To: http working group <http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
On Tue, 5 Dec 1995, Roy T. Fielding wrote: > > Yep, that's right. The 5 seconds is arbitrary and only serves as > a forcing function. I too want to understand the question Alex raised during the WG meeting re. why slow start and transmit windows don't prevent this from being a non-concern? Isn't the client naturally restricted from sending a huge number of bytes before the server starts receiving some of the bytes? If there needs to be a timeout to protect poor implementations, might it not be better to restrict the server from closing the connection for some interval after sending the abort. The server can leave the data unreceived or otherwise close the receive window but leave the connection open. Dave Morris
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