Re: Persistent Connection Question

Jeffrey Mogul (mogul@pa.dec.com)
Tue, 26 Mar 96 18:26:55 PST


    3) Some transport stacks have a more difficult time detecting a
    closed remote connection than a reset one (The reset causes all
    calls to report an error while a close causes many to continue to
    work).
    
Since HTTP/1.0 uses close-of-connection as the end-of-entity-body
indicator, how could such stacks support HTTP/1.0?  This seems
so fundamentally broken that I find it hard to believe we should
warp the protocol to deal with it.

-Jeff