Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Sniffing http traffic

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 12:20:57 -0800
On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 11:02:38AM -0500, Eckert, Christopher wrote:
> Browser stop button causes a Reset to be sent from the Browser to the server

*If* the Stop is pressed soon enoguh, and the browser responds quickly
enough to the Stop by closing the connection(s) over which the download
is taking place, that further data arrives from the server after the
browser closes the connection (and if that close causes the TCP code to
send an RST if further data arrives, rather than, say, just discarding
the data; sending an RST makes sense, but one should never assume
software always does that which makes sense...).