On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 03:16:04PM -0500, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: > More experimenting with boundary conditions (1.3).. another one for > Roy. :-) > > If I send a request header such as > > --- > POST / HTTP/1.0 > Content-type: text/plain > Content-length: 1024 > > less than 1K of data > --- > > Apache 1.3 eventually responds by closing the connexion, having > sent no response at all. > > Is this appropriate? Or should we be returning a 408 Request Timeout > instead?
We should be returning a 408, but doing so is difficult because the 1.3 timeouts are based on a signal handler which probably doesn't have the context necessary to know why the timeout occurred. ....Roy
