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Cspillane_18296
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NimbostratusHTTP::respond -reset flag
Hello everyone,
a couple of things about the HTTP::respond command with the "-reset" flag set; see http::respond:
1) If we use the syntax "HTTP::respond -reset 200" (i.e. the syntax defined in th...
The -reset flag is useful when there is a server-side connection. (For example, in the HTTP_RESPONSE event, or if there is pipelining.)
A use-case where it can help is when the server is responding with a 100MiB video file... but you want to HTTP::respond with something else. Normally, the HTTP filter will then sink the whole 100MiB response, wasting server resources. If you use the -reset flag, HTTP::respond will try to disconnect the server-side and reconnect to handle the next (pipelined) request.
