In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 09:08:52AM +0200, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
> [...]
> Could be, yes. Netscape does not recognize the shutdown until the TCP
> connection is closed (i.e. a FIN arrives -- I think the actual
> close_notify is just ignored), and it checks for this only when it
> wants to reuse the open connection -- if IE behaves like that, but
> additionally tries to send its own close_notify when this happens,
> then it cannot work, because it will get a RST if the server has
> totally closesd the connection by then. So there's the I/O error.
>
> What those browsers should do, of course, is select() for readability
> on all their open connections even while they are not used, so that
> they can detect a FIN and, in the SSL/TLS case, incoming alerts and
> the like at once. Maybe IE does that, but needs the FIN after the
> server's close_notify -- then everything should work fine with servers
> that use shutdown(..., 1), but not with those that just use
> close(...).
Ok, in other words: You think it might be reasonable to try to always use
shutdown(..,1) in Apache before a final close(...)?
Ralf S. Engelschall
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