Streaming and a slow client

one of our developers over here came up with a interesting question.

say we have a GET request which gets served from a CGI or proxy. and it is streamed/chunked out (which is the desired effect)

now lets say I have a VERY SLOW connection.

does this cause the server to hold onto the backend connection (ie.. keep the CGI/proxy alive) while the server is waiting for a response back from the client.

this >could< be a DOS type attack.

..Ian

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