Re: clarification of 7.2.2. Monitoring Connections for Error Status Messages

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.

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> On 16/04/2010, at 9:44 AM, Wenbo Zhu wrote:
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>> 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?
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>> Section 7.2.2 & 5.0 seems to suggest otherwise, but not strongly enough IMO.
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>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging-09
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>> "
>> 5.  Response
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>>   After receiving and interpreting a request message, a server responds
>>   with an HTTP response message.
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>> 7.2.2.  Monitoring Connections for Error Status Messages
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>>   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
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