On Mon Nov 16, 2020 at 7:02 PM EST, John Cowan wrote: > What concerns me, though, is that this suggests that it is forbidden for > any client to drop a connection when nothing has been sent for a while > or the client believes too much data has been sent. I think we have to > make it clear that not all clients need to be able to accept streaming > transmissions. Not accepting streaming transmissions is not really something the client can do and be a spec-compliant implementation. You can set a maximum size on the response, or you could set a minimum transfer throughput (I recommend being generous with that one), and you should let the user cancel an in-progress request.
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