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<body>On Sun, 08 Sep 2013 21:44:31 -0400, Bob Ippolito <bob@redivi.com> wrote:<br><br><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0.80ex; border-left: #0000FF 2px solid; padding-left: 1ex"><div dir="ltr">Are you really sure about that? lhttpc:request/9 uses spawn_link, so it should abort the request as soon as the callee dies.<div><a href="https://github.com/esl/lhttpc/blob/master/src/lhttpc.erl#L431">https://github.com/esl/lhttpc/blob/master/src/lhttpc.erl#L431</a></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Which, depending on the architecture, would either end the HTTP session (undesirable), or would leave the HTTP session in an undefined state (also undesirable). Of course, it's possible to handle such a forced exit gracefully, but looking at lhttpc_client I see no evidence that it does.<br></body></html>