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RE: Connection being reused following a cancellation (HTTP)

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 23:48:36 +0200 (CEST)

On Fri, 30 Sep 2011, Vladimir Grishchenko wrote:

> What it translates in real life is that a new reguest usually gets the
> response, potentially partial, of the previously cancelled one. Definitely
> not a good thing. I'm curious why this never surfaced before. Is it because
> most people use libcurl for file transfers and rarely cancel early? Our
> usage is a browser-like app with lots of data loading and cancellations as
> the user moves around the interface.

I don't think anyone can tell why nobody hasn't discovered a particular bug.
And quite honestly, I don't think its very important.

Fixing it is what concerns me now...

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