On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 9:43 PM, Ronen Mizrahi <[email protected]> wrote: > It looks like the patch does create issues with subsequent HTTP requests > made on the same connection (for persistent connections) and therefore we > won't submit it. > > The original issue reported however is still very much in effect. It is > particularly problematic for long-polling type requests where the server > uses evhttp_send_reply_start() and then every once in a while does > evhttp_send_reply_chunk(). If the client closes the connection, the server > won't detect it during the period between different chunks but rather only > when attempting to send the next chunk. This period can be several minutes > so this can be a real issue for servers that handle many connections.
What kind of issues did the original patch cause? Maybe we can track those issues down and fix it? peace, -- Nick *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to [email protected] with unsubscribe libevent-users in the body.
