Re: Abort data transfer?

[John C Klensin]

--On Thursday, October 22, 2009 19:21 +0100 Paul Smith
<p...@pscs.co.uk> wrote:

>...
> As I see it, you could somehow work out a protocol for telling
> something that is sending you 5000 TB of data to 'stop it
> please', but (a) it could ignore you or (b) it could stop, but
> then start again straight away, so it sends you 10MB, then
> another 10MB, then another 10MB ad disk-blow-upeum.
> 
> This can happen with pretty much any protocol anywhere.
>...

And that analysis is almost certainly one of the reasons why the
multipart/partial idea in MIME has never gone much of anywhere
as a useful tool.

   john