Bug in OW3 Beta9 (Broken URLs) "Underflow, Attempted read off end..."

[Timothy J Luoma]

Replying to message of Mon, 12 Apr 1999 12:27:27 -0700 (PDT)
	from Ken Case <kc at omnigroup.com>
	regarding ``Bug in OW3 Beta9 (Broken URLs) "Underflow, Attempted read 
	off end..."''
	
> One big difference between HTTP 1.0 and HTTP 1.1 is that HTTP 1.1
> servers are allowed to drop the connection to the client at any time,
> for any reason or no reason.

Without getting too far off topic, can I ask why they would change the  
standard to allow for dropped connections?

TjL