Re: Issues Beyond HTTP/1.1 ???

alopez-o@barrow.uwaterloo.ca writes:


>Issue 1:
>
>When a user stops a transmission, the CGI's generated do not get 
>killed. Am I correct to say that this is so because the HTTP protocol
>does not contemplate an "transmission interrupted" signal?
>
>Is there any knoen solution known to this problem that does not
>involve changes to the protocol?

I think its because httpd's usually buffer the whole object.  That is,
they don't write anything until the whole thing has been read.  I
suppose this is to provide an accurate Content-Length.

Duane W.