Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hyperreal.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA25519; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 09:01:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from paris.ics.uci.edu (mmdf@paris.ics.uci.edu [128.195.1.50]) by hyperreal.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA25469 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 09:00:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kiwi.ics.uci.edu by paris.ics.uci.edu id aa21140; 15 Jul 97 8:56 PDT To: new-httpd@apache.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: apache/src CHANGES http_protocol.c In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 14 Jul 1997 10:58:45 PDT." Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 08:44:59 -0700 From: "Roy T. Fielding" Message-ID: <9707150856.aa21140@paris.ics.uci.edu> Sender: new-httpd-owner@apache.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: new-httpd@apache.org >No! finalize_request_protocol() should *never* be called by a module. It >should only be called from http_request.c and http_protocol.c. Fixed. >And that's not its sole purpose. It's there to do anything the HTTP spec >requires needs to be done after the entity of the response has been >sent. If we had any footer headers to send, for example, we'd send them >there. That is what I wrote. The only thing that HTTP allows us to send at that point is the terminating information for a transfer encoding, which is exactly what a footer is with chunked. ....Roy