Re: oh the irony

From: Henrik Nordstrom (hno@hem.passagen.se)
Date: Mon Aug 02 1999 - 15:46:19 MDT


Joe Touch wrote:

> Seems like a browser might not care - just read until EOF.
> Ditto for caches. Why is it necessary to trust this information
> in the header?

It is a requirement for HTTP/1.1 persistent connection management, and
is useful as a validation that the object is sucessfully transferred
without interruption.

--
Henrik Nordstrom
Spare time Squid hacker



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