Re[2]: Bad browser behaviour?

  
what about pop a warning, or clear the page?
  
  

------ Original Message ------
From: "Adam Barth" <w3c@adambarth.com>
To: "Adrien W. de Croy" <adrien@qbik.com>
Cc: "HTTP Working Group" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Sent: 20/03/2012 6:02:34 p.m.
Subject: Re: Bad browser behaviour?
>It's probably impossible for browsers to do anything else given that
>browsers incrementally render chunk-transfered content.  For example,
>if the network were to hang at that point (rather than drop), they'd
>do the same thing.
>
>Adam
>
>
>On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Adrien W. de Croy <adrien@qbik.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>Hi all
>>
>>we're seeing some (IMO) undesirable behaviour for all tested current
>>browsers (we tested FF, Chrome, IE and Opera).
>>
>>It relates to abortive closes on chunked transfers.  In this case, I'm
>>talking about a server close prior to the final 0 chunk.
>>
>>All the browsers we tested ignore this and display the content with no
>>warning whatsoever.
>>
>>For our proxy to treat it as an abortive close is therefore a problem in our
>>customers' eyes.
>>
>>So what's the deal?  Should we allow this behaviour in the spec?  Or should
>>browser vendors be encouraged to break the page / download?
>>
>>Isn't it a potential security issue?
>>
>>Adrien
>>
>

Received on Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:16:39 UTC