[html5] r1943 - [] (0) Allow connection to be closed when receiving entity body in ping='' response

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Author: ianh
Date: 2008-07-25 15:29:56 -0700 (Fri, 25 Jul 2008)
New Revision: 1943

Modified:
   index
   source
Log:
[] (0) Allow connection to be closed when receiving entity body in ping='' response

Modified: index
===================================================================
--- index	2008-07-25 22:23:46 UTC (rev 1942)
+++ index	2008-07-25 22:29:56 UTC (rev 1943)
@@ -37344,10 +37344,11 @@
   <p class=note>To save bandwidth, implementors might also wish to consider
    omitting optional headers such as <code>Accept</code> from these requests.
 
-  <p>User agents must ignore any entity bodies returned in the responses, but
-   must, unless otherwise specified by the user, honor the HTTP headers
-   (including, in particular, redirects and HTTP cookie headers). <a
-   href="#refsRFC2109">[RFC2109]</a> <a href="#refsRFC2965">[RFC2965]</a>
+  <p>User agents must, unless otherwise specified by the user, honor the HTTP
+   headers (including, in particular, redirects and HTTP cookie headers), but
+   must ignore any entity bodies returned in the responses. User agents may
+   close the connection prematurely once they start receiving an entity body.
+   <a href="#refsRFC2109">[RFC2109]</a> <a href="#refsRFC2965">[RFC2965]</a>
 
   <p>When the <code title=attr-hyperlink-ping><a href="#ping">ping</a></code>
    attribute is present, user agents should clearly indicate to the user that

Modified: source
===================================================================
--- source	2008-07-25 22:23:46 UTC (rev 1942)
+++ source	2008-07-25 22:29:56 UTC (rev 1943)
@@ -34846,10 +34846,12 @@
   consider omitting optional headers such as <code>Accept</code> from
   these requests.</p>
 
-  <p>User agents must ignore any entity bodies returned in the
-  responses, but must, unless otherwise specified by the user, honor
+  <p>User agents must, unless otherwise specified by the user, honor
   the HTTP headers (including, in particular, redirects and HTTP
-  cookie headers). <a href="#refsRFC2109">[RFC2109]</a> <a
+  cookie headers), but must ignore any entity bodies returned in the
+  responses. User agents may close the connection prematurely once
+  they start receiving an entity body. <a
+  href="#refsRFC2109">[RFC2109]</a> <a
   href="#refsRFC2965">[RFC2965]</a></p>
 
   <p>When the <code title="attr-hyperlink-ping">ping</code> attribute is