- From: Glenn Strauss <gs-lists-ietf-http-wg@gluelogic.com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2025 20:03:23 -0500
- To: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Minor grammatical edit: => double "the the" in "when the the transport layer" Section 1. Introduction If they run longer than the grace period, they are abruptly terminated when the the transport layer is closed or reset, which is potentially disruptive and can lead to truncated content. Cheers, Glenn On Wed, Jan 08, 2025 at 04:06:06PM -0800, internet-drafts@ietf.org wrote: > Internet-Draft draft-ietf-httpbis-wrap-up-00.txt is now available. It is a > work item of the HTTP (HTTPBIS) WG of the IETF. > > Title: The HTTP Wrap Up Capsule > Authors: David Schinazi > Lucas Pardue > Name: draft-ietf-httpbis-wrap-up-00.txt > Pages: 9 > Dates: 2025-01-08 > > Abstract: > > HTTP intermediaries sometimes need to terminate long-lived request > streams in order to facilitate load balancing or impose data limits. > However, Web browsers commonly cannot retry failed proxied requests > when they cannot ascertain whether an in-progress request was acted > on. To avoid user-visible failures, it is best for the intermediary > to inform the client of upcoming request stream terminations in > advance of the actual termination so that the client can wrap up > existing operations related to that stream and start sending new work > to a different stream or connection. This document specifies a new > "WRAP_UP" capsule that allows a proxy to instruct a client that it > should not start new requests on a tunneled connection, while still > allowing it to finish existing requests. > > The IETF datatracker status page for this Internet-Draft is: > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-httpbis-wrap-up/ > > There is also an HTML version available at: > https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-httpbis-wrap-up-00.html > > Internet-Drafts are also available by rsync at: > rsync.ietf.org::internet-drafts > > >
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