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Re: LYNX-DEV proxy and 'z'apped transfer
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Klaus Weide |
Subject: |
Re: LYNX-DEV proxy and 'z'apped transfer |
Date: |
Mon, 1 Dec 1997 02:58:36 -0600 (CST) |
On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, David Woolley wrote:
[Leonid Pauzner:]
> > CHANGES.new say:
> >
> > 1997-11-19
> > * Tweak of HTTP.c to ensure closing of the connection when interrupted
> > ('z'apped) on the first socket read. - FM
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> > We have proxy cache and sometimes I use 'z' to save my time
> > if the file looks too long and/or the connection too slow.
> > Later, I check the URL and get it from cache,
> > since the background transfer non stopped.
> >
> > Does the tweak close such opportunity?
Note the underlined word: the only difference is for a 'z' that occurs
before Lynx has received the status line of the response. For 'z' typed
later, after Lynx has already read something, there is no difference -
Lynx was already closing the connection in that case (as it should).
> For the CERN proxy, it is better if the connection IS closed; it will
> lower the priority of the process and complete any cacheable fetch in
> the background. [...]
And for squid, see the "quick_abort" configuration setting.
But again, it's not really relevant for this change: the tweak is
a bug fix, without it there was a file descriptor leak.
Klaus