- From: Robert Siemer <Robert.Siemer-httpwg@backsla.sh>
- Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 12:17:34 +0200
- To: Yves Lafon <ylafon@w3.org>
- Cc: Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@henriknordstrom.net>, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>, Joe Orton <joe@manyfish.co.uk>, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, Brian Smith <brian@briansmith.org>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
> >>But one question stays: should a client/proxy retry if it detects a > >>truncated message? - As I read RFC2616: yes (especially if the method is > >>safe). > > > >Perfectly fine for user agents, but not so sure about proxies. But the > >partial response MAY be cached and completed using range requests. > > Ok, so if the proxy gets a reply using connection closure to signal the > end of the reply, should the proxy always treat this as an incomplete > transaction? Of course not (as the proxy can not detect truncated messages this way). Robert
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