- From: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>
- Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 21:05:24 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: Jeffrey Mogul <mogul@pa.dec.com>
- Cc: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
Jeffrey Mogul: > [rlgray@raleigh.ibm.com:] > Imagine the request times out, or a shark eats the trans-Atlantic > cable the object is being transfered over, or whatever. Now, I > have to close the connection to the client, who recieves a > truncated object with no indication of an error (until he tries to > use it and finds it is corrupted). There is no possiblity of > reporting what the problem is either. > >Maybe I'm missing something, but this seems like an ideal scenario >for "Chunked". Hmm, I always thought it would be possible to generate a tcp-level error (connection abort?) instead of closing the connection to the client in the normal way. Wouldn't that tell the client that something is wrong? Koen.
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