On Fri, 27 Apr 2001 dillon@hns.com wrote: > Thankyou for digging that up, but does it > mean that by a server SHOULD or MUST use self-defined message > lengths? This doesn't seem to give the browser author any assurance > that his pipelined requests won't be aborted by a premature connection > close due to a no CONTENT-LENGTH response. Then they have to resend the requsts to which they have not received responses. This is why only idempotent requests can be pipelined. > > Seems to me that you only pipeline after you've gotton one > request through a connection because you don't know whether the > other end supports persistent connections. After that first request, which > handles the negotiation, you'd like to be able to pipeline with worry about the > pipeline being > cut off. You always have to worry about the possibility that the pipeline is cut off.Received on Friday, 27 April 2001 18:37:45 UTC
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