Re: Timeout Status Code

John C. Mallery <JCMa@reagan.ai.mit.edu>

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    Date: Mon, 13 Jun 1994 10:40 EDT
    From: miked@cerf.net (Michael A. Dolan)

    At 02:26 PM 6/13/94 +0200, John C. Mallery wrote:
    >I'm currently using 5 minutes as a timeout.  Any thoughts on better timeout
    >limits?

    Is this unconditional ?  What if I have a slow line and a large document ?
    If it would time out unconditionally after 5 minutes, then perhaps it
    should be an algorithm of document size and transfer rate ?

Sorry, timeouts after the connection is idle for 5 minutes.

	    Mike
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