Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 20:01:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 'fetch' error with http, fix wanted Message-ID: <199707250001.UAA13578@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <97Jul24.163153pdt.177512@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> References: <199707241422.KAA29714@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <97Jul24.163153pdt.177512@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>
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<<On Thu, 24 Jul 1997 16:31:40 PDT, Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> said: > want to try to detect clients that have disappeared, and there's a > common (T/TCP-breaking) assumption that if you get a read EOF then > the connection is gone and you should tear it down at the application > level. Not just Transaction TCP.... That's a pretty clear failure on their part in terms of the TCP spec as a whole. There's nothing preventing any Web browser from doing a shutdown() on the socket after it transmits its request. (Of course, a lot of TCPs don't do anything on shutdown(), but that's another story altogether.) -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick
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