- From: Wilbur Streett <WStreett@mail.Monmouth.com>
- Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 15:55:36 -0400
- To: www-lib@w3.org
I have some clients that have decided to make a financial system based on
the HTTP protocol. I discussed the issues associated with HTTP end to end
acknowledgement a few years ago, but I don't recall exactly were or when,
so I'm forced to ask here for a reference or direct answers to the issues.
I recall that HTTP responses without a content-length field simply stream
the response back to the client side. But I am wondering about how the
transmission is actually closed, in particular in the case of a persistent
HTTP 1.1 connection between the client and the server. How does the client
know that the response is complete? If there is a transmission failure, is
there any specific response back to the server?
Wilbur
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Received on Sunday, 11 July 1999 15:56:00 UTC