- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 11:11:49 +1100
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
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." -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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