- From: Stefan Eissing <stefan.eissing@greenbytes.de>
- Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 13:41:36 +0100
- To: Diwakar Shetty <diwakar.shetty@oracle.com>
- Cc: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Am Donnerstag, 06.02.03, um 13:31 Uhr (Europe/Berlin) schrieb Diwakar Shetty: > > > Suppose a client has requested for page. > The page is a big file > > Before the whole response has come, client wants to indicate to server > that it is no more interested in the data. > > At the same time, I do not want the TCP connection to be closed. > Since I want to make use of Keep-Alive and keep the TCp connection > alive > > How can I do it ? > Once the response is underway, it is not possible for the client to interrupt the sending server other than by closing the connection. What a client, concerned about the size of a GET response, can do is to send a HEAD request to the server first and examine the Content-Length (hopefully known by the server) in order to decide. Hope this helps. //Stefan
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