spec/Overview.html 1.1134 1943 Allow connection to be closed when recei

Allow connection to be closed when receiving entity body in ping=''
response (whatwg r1943)

5.11.2.1. Hyperlink auditing
http://people.w3.org/mike/diffs/html5/spec/Overview.1.1134.html#hyperlink0

http://people.w3.org/mike/diffs/html5/spec/Overview.diff.html
http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/spec/Overview.html?r1=1.1133&r2=1.1134&f=h
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=1942&to=1943

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--- Overview.html 25 Jul 2008 22:23:51 -0000 1.1133
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@@ -37415,10 +37415,11 @@
   <p class=note>To save bandwidth, implementors might also wish to consider
    omitting optional headers such as <code>Accept</code> from these requests.
 
-  <p>User agents must ignore any entity bodies returned in the responses, but
-   must, unless otherwise specified by the user, honor the HTTP headers
-   (including, in particular, redirects and HTTP cookie headers). <a
-   href="#references">[RFC2109]</a> <a href="#references">[RFC2965]</a>
+  <p>User agents must, unless otherwise specified by the user, honor the HTTP
+   headers (including, in particular, redirects and HTTP cookie headers), but
+   must ignore any entity bodies returned in the responses. User agents may
+   close the connection prematurely once they start receiving an entity body.
+   <a href="#references">[RFC2109]</a> <a href="#references">[RFC2965]</a>
 
   <p>When the <code title=attr-hyperlink-ping><a href="#ping">ping</a></code>
    attribute is present, user agents should clearly indicate to the user that

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