Re: FYI: http timeout headers

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Mark Nottingham <mnot_at_yahoo-inc.com> wrote:
> Right. I think the authors hope that intermediaries (proxies and gateways) will adapt their policies (within configured limits) based upon what they see in incoming connection-timeout headers, and rewrite the outgoing connection-timeout headers appropriately.
>
> I'm not sure whether that will happen, hence my question. I'm even less sure about the use cases for request-timeout, for the reasons you mention.

I suspect that this is overengineering : scalable proxies really
shouldn't need special handling for very long requests, and proxies
that need special handling will still want timeouts to guard against
e.g. roaming clients leaving stale connections.

Simply recommending that intermediaries depend on TCP to time out
connections might be sufficient, simpler, and allow room for clean
layering to deal with roaming clients and the like without making
requests larger.

-Rob
Received on Thu Mar 10 2011 - 22:57:25 MST