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Jonathan_Edgewo
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Mar 10, 2007

http 204 response with http::close statement

When using a rule that responds to http requests with a 204 response code, if it use the http::close statement after the response statement, I get this error in the log:   TCL error: Rule http_204 ...
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hoolio
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Sep 15, 2008
Hi bl0ndie,

What's the functional difference between using HTTP::close compared with TCP::close in 9.4.5? What is an HTTP connection? Is it only supposed to set the Connection header to Close versus FIN'ing the connection with a TCP::close?

Also, it looks like the HTTP::close command still doesn't work in 9.4.5 in HTTP_RESPONSE: 

 
 when HTTP_RESPONSE { 
  
    HTTP::respond 200 content "responded" 
    HTTP::respond 200 content "responded" Connection Close 
  
    log local0. "TCP close" 
    TCP::close 
  
    log local0. "HTTP close" 
    HTTP::close 
 }

Log error:

Sep 15 17:18:47 tmm tmm[1805]: Rule hooleya_tcp_http_close_rule : HTTP close

Sep 15 17:18:47 tmm tmm[1805]: 01220001:3: TCL error: hooleya_tcp_http_close_rule - Illegal argument. Can't execute in the current context. (line 7) invoked from within "HTTP::close"

Aaron