Re: Rechartering HTTPbis

actually this raises the issue of aborting transfers.

Currently to abort a chunked transfer, you must close the connection.  
(and this triggers all sorts of nasty buggy behaviour in browsers - most 
of which don't complain).

It would be nice if the chunk header could signal an abort.


On 26/01/2012 11:58 a.m., Amos Jeffries wrote:
> On 26.01.2012 08:52, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> In message <4F205B2E.5080407@qbik.com>, Adrien de Croy writes:
>>
>>>> * Option for specifying preliminary metadata in front of content and
>>>>    update it to final values after content.  This allows a server to
>>>>    Say this looks like "200=OK, 1Mbyte long, text/html, but hold 
>>>> on..."
>>>>    then send the object and update with "I was wrong, it was only 
>>>> 800k.",
>>>>    "Ohh, and btw, it expires in 4 seconds", "my disk failed, sorry: 
>>>> 206".
>>>
>>> that will make life really hard for intermediaries.  When can you write
>>> your cache index information, if information will be countermanded.
>>
>> Actually it will make it easier for some of them, for instance during
>> ESI operations.
>>
>> It also means that we don't have to abandon a TCP connection just 
>> because
>> something went wrong with a object (ie: more separation of transport
>> from content)
>
> Provided that the trailer details are limited to transport meta data 
> like your example case.
>
> Altering that "text/html" to "image/jpeg" in the trailer or similar 
> trick introduces a whole mess of security attacks I don't think we 
> want to go near at this point.
>
> AYJ
>
>

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Received on Thursday, 26 January 2012 01:44:32 UTC