Hello all,
I'm a bit rusty on HTTP, so maybe someone can help me out. Please correct
me if I'm wrong below.
A Sender may choose to use keep-alive (not use Connection: Close), and
doing so allows a connection to be reused for one request/reply after
another, each preceded by HTTP header lines and a blank line. Either side
may end a TCP connection (keep-alive or otherwise) by cleanly closing the
connection (using a handshaked close to prevent the long abnormal close
timeout period).
A wait-mode Get-Notifications (that honors the wait-mode request) will
reply with an HTTP multipart header, followed by 1 part for the initial
reply, and another part as each event occurs.
So if a Sender has a connection open using keep-alive, and among the
requests sends a request for a wait-mode Get-Notifications, I suppose it's
safe to assume that the Sender won't be sending another request until the
Receiver tells the sender that there are no more events, after which the
Sender may send another request.
In the non keep-alive case of a wait-mode Get-Notifications, after the
Receiver sends the last reply (that says there are no more events or that
it's ending wait-mode), the Receiver (cleanly) closes the connection.
Where does HTTP's chunked fit into this? As I understand it, chunking is
used when a large amount of data must be sent in a single HTTP request or
reply, where each chunk is preceded by a chunk header that contains the
number of bytes in the following chunk. Chunked would typically only be
used when sending a document.
Can multipart and chunking coexist?
Marty