[spec] When may clients begin processing responses?

[Scot]

On Tue, 23 Nov 2021 08:57:43 +0100
Omar Polo <op@omarpolo.com> wrote:

> Scot <gmi1@scotdoyle.com> writes:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > The transaction sequence in section 1.1 seems to read chronologically, 
> > which would mean clients are not permitted to handle any of the 
> > response until the server closes the connection.
> 
> I don't know how every gemini client handle this, but IMHO the clearest
> way to do so is just streamingly parsing the output as soon as it
> arrives.  If you don't get a close_notify at the end you can just as
> well delete the page and render an error if you want.
> 
> (also, you won't be able to handle streaming pages if you wait for the
> server to close the connection)
> 

Agreed. A nice side effect (imo) of specifying that clients are
permitted to start handling requests right away is that the
streaming use case is included.