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Re: LYNX-DEV proxy and 'z'apped transfer - suggestion
From: |
David Woolley |
Subject: |
Re: LYNX-DEV proxy and 'z'apped transfer - suggestion |
Date: |
Mon, 22 Dec 1997 08:51:02 +0000 (GMT) |
>
> Is it possible and desirable to add new 'Z' key (besides existing 'z')
> to stop transfer virtually, e.a. allow proxy to finish transfer
> in background?
> Actually, I used 'z' for this purpose on Lynx 2.6
> but with 2.7.1+ it stop transfer more strictly.
I think this may be the result of a bug that was reported a month or two
ago. Lynx wasn't always closing aborted connections, with the probable result
that the proxy stalls waiting for its output to be consumed, whereas
the CERN proxy or a suitably configured Squid will complete the transfer in
the background if the connection closes. I think the bug was being
detected as the result of the file descriptor leak.
There is no official protocol for signalling caches to go into background
mode.