Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 16:31:40 PDT From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 'fetch' error with http, fix wanted Message-ID: <97Jul24.163153pdt.177512@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 24 Jul 97 07:22:13 PDT." <199707241422.KAA29714@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> wrote: >I would say that either their TCP or their Web server is busted. I wouldn't be surprised if it were the web server. It's common to 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. The squid cache did this for a while, which is where I first noticed that T/TCP requests failed. Bill
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