Matthias Vill wrote:
> Hi there,
>   
>>> We are returning 408 HTTP_REQUEST_TIMEOUT if anybody tries such a 
>>> request. Don't know if it's right thing to do?
>>> Or we could also just close the connection. I don't know how browsers 
>>> react, since haven't found any "smart" ones.
>>>     
>>>       
>> What happens on a 408, doesn't the user get an error page?
>>     
> According to our best friend RFC 2616 for HTTP/1.1
>
> 10.4.9 408 Request Timeout
>
>    The client did not produce a request within the time that the server
>    was prepared to wait. The client MAY repeat the request without
>    modifications at any later time.
>
> So if the client has implemented 408 it is just perfect for our
> situation as we don't get like "You 've been redirected"-messages or so
> but can plainly tell the browser to retry.
> Most propably there won't be any POST-requests, but many browsers do
> complain on redirected POST-forms.
>
>   
Unfortunately , it didn't work. Internet explorer 6.0 got error and did 
not reload. Now testing with "connection close" method. This seems to be 
quite rare and not so straightforwardly reproduceable, since given same 
conditions I couldn't make it to the error page.

> Greetings
>
> Matthias
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