On lör, 2008-05-24 at 11:51 +0200, Henrik Nordstrom wrote: > On lör, 2008-05-24 at 09:52 +0200, Julian Reschke wrote: > > > With chunked encoding in use, how does the sender of a message indicates > > an error? (such as when serving a file from the file system, and getting > > an IO error) > > By closing the connection in the middle of the response without sending > the last-chunk. Or if you meant "Witch chunked encoding NOT in use" then it's still the same, by closing the connection in the middle of the response. How easy the error is to detect for the recipient then depends on the encoding or format of the response. T-E: gzip/deflate both have stream structure and clearly indicates premature closure (except for the hypothetical case of a sender sending multiple members in a gzip stream and crashing just between two members). If no T-E is used and Content-Length is used then it's trivially detected by the response beeing too short. If no T-E is used and no Content-Length then it's tricker as the receier then has to fully parse the response and from that judge if it's complete or not, and then guess if this is due to a server failure or if the object at the server really is corrupted/truncated... Regards Henrik
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