[Zope-dev] Zope closes connection if the client closes the write-end of connection

[Lennart Regebro]

2009/10/16 Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com>:
> Hmmm?  A TCP socket corrresponds to exactly one open file descriptor,
> which has to stick around for the response data to come back on.
> "Half-closing" it is just silly, and is only guaranteed to work where
> both ends expect to handle this case.

Half-closing is the standard way of saying "close when you will", so
it's normal TCP-behavior. How many HTTP-servers that handle that I
don't know, but I have to agree that it's probably the right thing to
do.

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