Bodo Moeller wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 09:08:52AM +0200, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
> >> What exactly does Apache with mod_ssl do when shutting down an SSL
> >> connection (in the default case)? Does it send its close_notify alert
> >> and then send a FIN -- i.e. shutdown(..., SHUT_WR) -- so that the
> >> browser still can write TCP data, or does it send the close_notify
> >> alert and then immediately perform a (half-duplex) close(...)?
> > ^^^^ half? you mean full, right?
>
> Maybe I *mean* "full-duplex", but I did intend to write "half-duplex" :-)
> That's the term used in RFC 1122; it looks just as strange to me as it
> does to you, but as the standard uses that terminology ...
Hmmm ... leaving aside what is meant, the term "half-duplex close" is
entirely non-standard ... the correct term is "half-close", surely?
Cheers,
Ben.
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