Re: Aborting a connection

["Roy T. Fielding" <fi...@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU>]

>     Quick technical question... from a client programming point of
> view, how does one "abort a connection"?  Just close the socket on the
> client's end and let the server figure it out?  Or is there a "nicer"
> way of telling the server to stop sending data?  I'm thinking of
> factoring in early termination and client drops into my HTTP benchmark
> program, and closing the socket at random times seems to be the
> easiest (and only?) way of doing it.

The only way.

....Roy