Scrive "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello:
[DOS attack] Good point. > I guess a way to overcome this in the client side > would be to send a HEAD request prior to establish if > the resource is available for consumption. If not, > the server will respond with 401 and your client can > then send the appropriate authentication credentials. I don't think that this is very practicable. Who should do this, the client or the component? Every time? > Also, if the server is responding prematurely, > doesn't it mean that the request connection was > aborted? And if this is the case, shouldn't the > HttpCli component detect this and stop sending? I agree. > This > still won't prevent any data currently in transit > from generatinga 402 error response when it arrives > at the server. At the moment I get a 400 or 414 :-) Bye, Maurizio. ---------------------------------------------------- This mail has been sent using Alpikom webmail system http://www.alpikom.it -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twsocket Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be