On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Alexey Melnikov wrote: > If I understood the question correctly: "why would the server bother > returning this"? Can the server don't send FETCH reply in this case.
It could avoid sending a FETCH reply, but then it would have to send a NO instead of an OK. It is a protocol violation to send OK (meaning "I have sent all requested data") without sending all requested data. A NO response, in turn, is not very nice, since most clients will report an error to the user (perhaps in a modal window). That isn't very attractive when all the client wanted to do was make sure that it had reached end-of-file. -- Mark -- http://staff.washington.edu/mrc Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate.
