Issues Beyond HTTP/1.1 ???

Alex Lopez-Ortiz 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?
 > 

Your CGI program ought to get a SIGPIPE signal when the server
instance goes away, which will happen when the TCP connection goes away.

Received on Friday, 22 March 1996 23:13:56 UTC