- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@liege.ICS.UCI.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 06 Dec 1995 18:23:33 -0800
- To: "David W. Morris" <dwm@shell.portal.com>
- Cc: http working group <http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
> 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. If someone would test that theory on real systems and see if it works, that would be a big help. I specified the only known solution to the stated problem -- not the only possible solution. ......Roy
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