Typically, your select() will return that the socket is readable, and
when you read, you will get back 0 bytes. This signals to you that the
connection has been closed. If you get a -1 read, treat it as an
incomplete transfer.

-- James

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karr, David [mailto:david.karr@...]
> Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 12:48 PM
> To: 'http-compliance@yahoogroups.com'
> Subject: RE: [http-compliance] How do browsers detect end of response
> when no Content-Length hea der is present?
>
>
> I started to read that earlier, but I missed the short "closing the
> connection" point.
>
> So, how exactly do you detect the closing of the connection?
> If you're
> using a non-blocking "select" loop, would you get a SIGPIPE?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Alex Rousskov [mailto:rousskov@...]
> > Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 12:01 PM
> > To: 'http-compliance@yahoogroups.com'
> > Subject: Re: [http-compliance] How do browsers detect end
> of response
> > when no Content-Length hea der is present?
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Karr, David wrote:
> >
> > > How do browsers figure out a response is "Complete" if the
> > origin server
> > > doesn't send a "Content-Length" header? What is the normal
> > strategy for
> > > that? The response could be sent in more than one
> packet, correct?
> >
> > RFC 2616 defines browsers behavior in this case. There are several
> > scenarios like Chunked Encoding and end-of-file/connection
> detection.
> > See a lengthy discussion in Section 4.4 of the RFC.
> > http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec4.html#sec4.4
> >
> > Alex.
> >
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