Re: Closing the connection

On 25/10/2011, at 12:34 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> in <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging-16.html#rfc.section.7.1.4.p.5> we say:
> 
> "Servers SHOULD NOT close a connection in the middle of transmitting a response, unless a network or client failure is suspected."
> 
> Really? As far as I recall, it's the only way for a server to signal the presence of a problem once it has started to send the response body.



Perhaps change to:


"... unless a network or client failure is suspected, or a problem in generating the response necessitates abandoning it. See [ref to p6] for details of how caches will treat incomplete responses."


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Received on Tuesday, 25 October 2011 00:12:16 UTC