- From: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 13:20:30 -0600 (MDT)
- To: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, Ben Laurie wrote: > Larry Masinter wrote: > > > If we don't disallow such things, a proxy implementation which attempted > > to buffer complete responses before sending them on would be > > non-compliant. > > A proxy which attempts to buffer complete responses is broken, so it may > as well be non-compliant. Even if it doesn't buffer complete responses, but just fixed size chunks, it will still cause problems. Apache's proxy is broken with never-ending server push connections. I suspect many others are as well. What is needed is a timeout combined with a buffer. OTOH, that could still result in problems with server push that sends a very small amount of data at frequent enough intervals to reset the timer before the buffer is flushed. I can't see any nice way to do it aside from not buffering at all, and that is ugly.
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