RE: mid-course errors
Yaron Goland (yarong@microsoft.com)
Mon, 14 Apr 1997 18:12:20 -0700
One could always invent a 1xx response which says "This current response
just went south."
Yaron
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gregory J. Woodhouse [SMTP:gjw@wnetc.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 14, 1997 9:46 AM
> To: Bob Denny
> Cc: Dave Kristol; http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
> Subject: Re: mid-course errors
>
> If CGI outgput is spooled, doesn't that defeat the purpose of chunked
> encoding for CGI output?
>
> I share your concern about errors that occur after the 200 response. I
> can't think of any way to signal a problem except to close the
> connection
> before the final chunk length of 0 is transmitted. This would work, of
> course, but it would be nice if the server could give some indication
> of
> the nature of the problem.
>
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> If you're going to reinvent the wheel, at least try to come
> up with a better one.