Re: HTTP/2 response completed before its request

On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 12:31:24PM -0400, Patrick McManus wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> wrote:
> 
> > OK thanks for explaining. But I still fail to see the difference. And
> > upload
> > and a download are exactly the same, in both cases we're sending a message
> > body and any party should be free to abort receipt saying it doesn't want
> > it
> > anymore.
> >
> 
> I agree - you just used the canceled download as an example - so I stayed
> on track with it as it would be much more common that the scenario in this
> thread.
> 
> In the okhttp case the server is the one receiving a stream it might not
> want. Its state is half-closed-local (because it has already generated the
> END_STREAM) and from that state it can send a RST_STREAM, NO_ERROR and the
> client ought to stop uploading stuff when it receives that.

OK so it's more of an implementation issue than a protocol design issue ?
Then maybe the case should be documented while it's hot so that nobody gets
trapped again.

Thanks
Willy

Received on Wednesday, 2 July 2014 17:07:49 UTC