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holding connections open: oh, well
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Kristol)
Wed Sep 14 18:55:12 1994
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 00:43:52 +0200
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From: dmk@allegra.att.com (Dave Kristol)
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A couple of people have beat into my feeble brain the show-stopper
problem with my modest proposal: not all servers reliably return
Content-Length in response to each GET. Therefore clients rely on
getting EOF (i.e., a dropped connection) to know when they've gotten
everything. Which means, therefore, that servers can't hold open a
connection, or the client will keep waiting until it times out.
So, with apologies to all for the chatter and bandwidth, I withdraw my
modest proposal. (Gee, it seemed like such a good idea at the time.)
Dave Kristol
