Re: oh the irony

From: Duane Wessels (wessels@ircache.net)
Date: Mon Aug 02 1999 - 16:43:04 MDT


On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Joe Touch wrote:
 
> Wouldn't that more correctly show up as an error on the socket,
> rather than an EOF? I'm bothered by the notion that you have
> to check length, if you correctly check for an EOF.

Perhaps, yes. But socket errors are not normally propogated
along by proxies.

A proxy is reading bytes from an origin server. In the middle of the
transfer it gets a read error on that socket. What should the proxy do
to its connection with the client to "pass on" this error?

Duane W.



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