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Subject: Re: CS 551
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:24:07 -0700
From: Bill Cheng <william@bourbon.usc.edu>

Someone wrote:

  > In a GET reply with offset, should the data length field be the size
  > of the entire file or from offset?

I think the spec is very clear about this.  DataLength is the
number of bytes in the Data field.
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Bill Cheng // bill.cheng@usc.edu <URL:http://merlot.usc.edu/william/usc/>




On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Bill Cheng <william@bourbon.usc.edu> wrote:
> Someone wrote:
>
>  > In case of malicious client#4 , the client returns "No data read" even if i
>  > attempt to send an ALLFAIL . On my server side, send returns a broken pipe,
>  > which I assume is because the client is closing connection. The guideline
>  > says that the client should receive an ALLFAIL.
>
> That's not what the grading guidelines said.  Please read
> it again!
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> Bill Cheng // bill.cheng@usc.edu <URL:http://merlot.usc.edu/william/usc/>
>
>