SPOOFED: Regarding non-finite response bodies

[John Cowan]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 7:04 PM Drew DeVault <sir at cmpwn.com> wrote:

> 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),


I'm sorry, all those negations break my poor monkey brain.  The first
sentence seems to say that the client must continue reading to the end of
the response, the second sentence says that it may break it off.  Malicious
servers are, or will be, a fact of life; connection problems are already a
fact of life.

you should let the user
> cancel an in-progress request.
>

Not all clients are interactive.



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