On Wednesday, August 29, 2001, at 12:29 PM, Ian Holsman wrote:
one of our developers over here came up with a interesting question.
say we have a GET request which gets served from a CGI or proxy. and it is streamed/chunked out (which is the desired effect)
now lets say I have a VERY SLOW connection.
does this cause the server to hold onto the backend connection (ie.. keep the CGI/proxy alive) while the server is waiting for a response back from the client.
Yes, this is exactly what happens when you (mod_)proxy iTunes under Mac OS X. If the client connection is slow enough, it fails and rebuffers the stream periodically. But the backend connection stays open.
Chuck Murcko Topsail Group http://www.topsail.org/
