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Multiple responses from one request
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Hellerstein)
Thu Feb 17 10:10:05 2000
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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 10:04:17 -0500
From: "Daniel Hellerstein" <DANIELH@mailbox.econ.ag.gov>
To: www-talk@w3.org
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I suspect this is a no-no, but my reading of rfc2616 doesn't give me a
definitive answer;
The question:
Can an http 1.1 serverr "pipeline" multiple responses (over a
maintained connection)
to a single request; without using a mulitpart content type (and
suitable dividers).
For example
a) client requests /pictures/anim5.cgi
b) the "anim5.cgi" script responds with 5 differerent images, say
with a second or two wait between images
c) This response is over the single connection
Thus, the response would look something like;
http/1.1 200 Ok
Content-type: image/gif
Content-length: 251
(image1 info, that is 251 bytes long)
http/1.1 200 Ok
Content-type: image/gif
Content-length: 412
(image21 info, that is 412 bytes long)
....
http/1.1 200 Ok
Content-type: image/gif
Content-length: 1311
(image5 info, that is 1311 bytes long)
Okay, this may be a stupid thing to do, given the way most browsers
will react
(i.e.; they won't replace images to form a server push animation)..
The point is that I'm trying to decide if I should attempt to
detect, and then disallow, this sequence of events in a "customizable"
http/1.1 server I'm revamping.
Thanks
Daniel Hellerstein
http://www.srehttp.org
danielh@crosslink.net
