Re: Issue #154: Sending a response before the request is complete

I could see adding a blurb which states that headers are not complete
unless they're complete, but otherwise, this is HTTPbis as opposed to
HTTP/2 material, I think?
-=R


On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 10:35 PM, James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> wrote:

> https://github.com/http2/http2-spec/issues/154
>
> Suggested add to the HTML mapping...
>
> ---
> The server MUST NOT begin sending the response header block
> until it receives all of the request headers from the
> client; however, the server MAY begin sending the response
> immediately after receiving the request headers without waiting
> for the complete request payload or trailers to be received.
> ---
>
> Since we added HEADER continuations, there is a risk that a server
> might begin its response to a request prematurely, without waiting for
> the complete set of headers to be received. Doing so could cause quite
> a few major issues including caching problems.
>
> While this is not something that we can strictly enforce as a MUST, it
> is something that servers really ought to do.
>
>