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On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 03:41:51PM -0400, Cliff Woolley wrote:
> 
> Somebody remind me why that ap_status_drops_conn call was added in the
> first place?  It was a recent change, and seemed important at the time.

I think it was so that we can drop the connection on certain error
conditions immediately upon detecting the condition, instead of getting
back to a blocking read from the socket and hanging on bogus input data.

-aaron