Subject: RE: client closing connection

From: "Yogesh Bang" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 18:17:08 +0530

Hopefully there exists a provision to specify the
"BYTE RANGE" in "HTTP request" to hint the Web-Server
about the Length of data Client Browser can accept.
Exploring more on 'HTTP Partial Download' may help.

Cheers,
Yog

-----Original Message-----
From:	Diwakar Shetty [mailto:[email-masked]]
Sent:	Thu 2/6/2003 6:01 PM
To:	[email-masked]
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Subject:	client closing connection

Suppose a client has requested for page.
The page is a big file

Before the whole response has come, client wants to indicate to server that it is no more interested in the data.

At the same time, I do not want the TCP connection to be closed.
Since I want to make use of Keep-Alive and keep the TCp connection alive

How can I do it ?

Can sending "Connection:close" do the job ?
But I guess it will tear down the "Keep-Alive" connection in HTTP/1.1
Am not sure about its behaviour in HTTP 1.0

Thanks
Diwakar