"Wide load" status code(s)?

[Petite Abeille]

> On Jun 10, 2020, at 09:32, solderpunk <solderpunk at SDF.ORG> wrote:
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> are forced to simply terminate the connection once a threshold amount of content has been downloaded

Is it really a problem? It should be user-agents prerogative to drop the connection anytime they see fit. And/or only handle a small subset of media type (e.g. text/* only). Ditto for showing network activities. Even the simplest of client could count how many bytes it has read so far, no?