Re: Interoperability testing with Xythos DAV server

>(seems like the server just closes the connection each time.  Is this
>allowed?  It's certainly not efficient.  But anyway on the assumption that
>it is legal, I modified my test code to work with this, so I could test
>more features)

It is allowed, but prevents the client from knowing whether
they obtained the complete response or were just cut off.
In other words, it is legitimate in HTTP/1.1, but never a good design
choice when chunked is an alternative.

....Roy

Received on Monday, 12 July 1999 18:40:55 UTC