Re: [core] Stateless proxy and 5.04 (Gateway Timeout)

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Thu, 21 November 2019 11:18 UTC

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Subject: Re: [core] Stateless proxy and 5.04 (Gateway Timeout)
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On Nov 20, 2019, at 22:10, Klaus Hartke <hartke@projectcool.de> wrote:
> 
>   If the request to the destination times out, then a 5.04 (Gateway
>   Timeout) response MUST be returned.

How can the request time out if the proxy has forgotten all about it?

In this case, the timeout cannot be anything but infinite.

Grüße, Carsten