Re: HTTP Connection Management (draft-ietf-http-connection-00.txt)
Jeff de la Beaujardiere (delabeau@iniki.gsfc.nasa.gov)
Wed, 26 Mar 1997 15:54:37 -0500
John Franks writes:
> Gettys and Freier are discussing something else, for example, letting the
> client know about a server's policy concerning maximum allowed idle time
> or maximum number of pipelined GETs permitted..
Thanks for setting me straight on this.
> I think that Ben Laurie was pointing out that the server can't really know
> "when all the inlined entities have been sent" since some may be in the
> browser's cache, but the client surely knows when they have been received
> so it is not clear why it would need a close-connection hint.
I assumed the hint was meant as a request to the client to close the
connection and go away. I agree that caching could be a problem.
--Jeff dLB
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