- From: Wenbo Zhu <wenboz@google.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:18:56 -0700
- To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Cc: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote: > The server isn't required to wait for the entire request before sending a status. Is that what you're looking for? more precisely, the message body as well ... and yes, I want to know if the spec explicitly disallows such behavior. > > > On 16/04/2010, at 9:44 AM, Wenbo Zhu wrote: > >> As a client is sending a message-body over the network connection, >> will any non-error response status (as well as the message body) be >> allowed, at all? >> >> Section 7.2.2 & 5.0 seems to suggest otherwise, but not strongly enough IMO. >> >> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging-09 >> >> " >> 5. Response >> >> After receiving and interpreting a request message, a server responds >> with an HTTP response message. >> >> 7.2.2. Monitoring Connections for Error Status Messages >> >> An HTTP/1.1 (or later) client sending a message-body SHOULD monitor >> the network connection for an error status while it is transmitting >> the request. If the client sees an error status, it SHOULD >> immediately cease transmitting the body. If the body is being sent >> using a "chunked" encoding (Section 6.2), a zero length chunk and >> empty trailer MAY be used to prematurely mark the end of the message. >> If the body was preceded by a Content-Length header, the client MUST >> close the connection. >> " >> >> - Wenbo >> > > > -- > Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/ > >
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