SPOOFED: Regarding non-finite response bodies

[Drew DeVault]

On Mon Nov 16, 2020 at 7:02 PM EST, John Cowan wrote:
> What concerns me, though, is that this suggests that it is forbidden for
> any client to drop a connection when nothing has been sent for a while
> or the client believes too much data has been sent. I think we have to
> make it clear that not all clients need to be able to accept streaming
> transmissions.

Not accepting streaming transmissions is not really something the client
can do and be a spec-compliant implementation. You can set a maximum
size on the response, or you could set a minimum transfer throughput (I
recommend being generous with that one), and you should let the user
cancel an in-progress request.