[Standards-JIG] Closing idle streams
Carlo v. Loesch
CvL at mail.symlynX.com
Thu Jun 1 14:03:47 CDT 2006
Matthew A. Miller typeth:
| Maybe my reading comprehension skills are lacking, but I read this to
| mean what one MUST do is:
| 1) send the appropriate <stream:error/>
| 2) send the closing </stream:stream>
| 3) terminate the underlying TCP connection
No you understood perfectly, only that by terminating the connection
you no longer give the other side the chance to finish whatever it
may have started sending, thus risking loss of data.
Whereas the stream close handshake allows the other side to friendly
close its side, too, and both sides know no data got lost.
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